The friendship between President Coolidge and Henry Ford, whose propaganda has spread race hatred throughout the world and whose name was an inspiration to the Hungarian and Roumanian mobs who murdered thousands of Jewish people, cannot be regarded with equanimity, says the “Jewish World” of Philadelphia in its issue of Nov. 23. Pointing out that Ford base become too welcome a guest at the White House, the paper continues:
“Calvin Coolidge certainly has the right to choose his own friends, but it is questionable if President Coolidge has the same right. The President’s friendship for Henry Ford can be interpreted to mean that he approves of Ford’s anti-Semitic propaganda.
“It is now the duty of the Jewish citizens, particularly our good Jewish leaders who fought so devotedly for the Republican party in the last campaign, to call to the attention of President Coolidge the dangers of his friendship for Ford.”
FINDS FAULT WITH ARGENTINE IMMIGRATION PROJECT
“Die Presse”, a Jewish paper of Buenos Aires, has an editorial in a recent issue, explaining the nature of the immigration project of the Argentine government, contained in a Bill on Land Settlement which was presented some time ago to the Argentine Parliament.
“The now famous project has nothing to do with direct colonization on the part of the government.” “Die Presse” points out. “It is called a ‘colonization project’ because it makes it possible for organizations interested in this kind of work to acquire land for their purposes.
“The bureau which the government will establish is to serve merely as a medium for establishing relations between the lazy Argentine landowners and the wide awake capitalists of Europe and the United States. It cannot be denied that even this alone is a good thing for Argentine. It will infuse life into dead land and dead capital. But it is not what we, who are interested in immigration, have been hoping for.”
LITHUANIA’S GRATITTDE…
How Dr. S. Rosenbaum, until recently Minister for Jewish Affairs in Lithuania, had devoted the best of his great abilities in the course of the past decade toward the upbuilding of a strong independent Lithuania, only to be spurned and insulted now by the Lithuznian government, is related in an article which appears in the “Nener Haint” of Warsaw (issue of Nov. 10) written by Ben-Zion Katz.
“The Zithuanian government cannot deny the facts: it deprived the Jewish Ministry of its budget, then it turned out the Minister himself (Dr. Rosenbaum). and finally it dragged Dr. Rosenbaum into court on a hypocritical charge-a splendid reward for his self-sacrificing services to Lithuania,…” writes Mr. Katz.
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