Daily Digest of World Public Opinion on Jewish Matters

The “Jewish Morning Journal” of Nov. 20 has the following comment on the marriage of Gilbert W. Kahn to Miss Anne E. Whelan, a Catholic.

“To scan the list of those present at Mr. Kahn’s wedding is to be convinced that social anti-Semitism, about which there is so much talk here, is related more to old religious prejudice than anything else. The bridegroom’s father, Otto H. Kahn, is a Jew. But his son became a Protestant and was accepted in all those circles and ‘exclusive’ clubs where Jews are generally not admitted. This is the crude, coarse anti-Semitism of the backward countries revised in a polite, American form. The aristocratic clubs and exclusive hotels keep the Jews out because of religious bias. All hereditary and acquired faults and shortcomings are forgiven once the Jew is sprinkled with a little holy water.”

CALLS MANDATES COMMISSION REPORT ON PALESTINE HYPOCRITICAL

The “Day”, writing editorially on the Mandates Commission’s report on Palestine rendered to the Council of the League of Nations, is greatly displeased with the tone which is used in the report on the subject of the Jews.

“The report is partial and destroys almost completely the basic idea of the Balfour Declaration,” says the “Day”. “What right has the Mandates Commission to speak of Jewish immigration into Palestine in a tone as if it were a matter of Jewish immigration into South Africa? What right has the Commission to say that the immigrants from eastern Europe are not suitable for Palestine? Not to speak of the fact that the Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe have done more for Palestine in a few years than all the hundreds of thousands of Arabs have done in 600 years, we would like to know, does the Commission expect there will be a system of discrimination against certain Jews in Palestine-something on the line of the ‘Nordic’ proposition in the United States?

“We hope the Zionist Organization will protest sharply against this anti-Jewish report, and that Sir Herbert Samuel, too, will not remain silent.”

ERRORS THAT CAUSED THE REFUGEE MESS

The Jewish conference on the immigration question which was held recently in Montreal has brought out clearly four errors that were committed on the part of the Canadian Jews in regard to the Jewish refugees, who were to have been admitted into Canada by an arrangement between the Canadian government and the “Ica” organization, says the “Hebrew Journal” of Toronto, in a recent issue.

“The first error,” remarks the paper, “was the fact that a committee consisting of a few persons undertook the work without consulting the representatives of the Jewish masses. The second error consisted in leaving the matter of the legal arrangements entirely to a foreign organization, the Paris ‘Ica’. The third error was in allowing private business to be mixed with philanthropic work, even if the motives were good. The fourth error was the undertaking of a task which we knew could not be carried out on our own finances and then, when the job was on our hands we approached the American Jews for help.”