Digest of Public Opinion on Jewish Matters

[The purpose of the Digest is informative. Preference is given to papers not generally accessible to our readers. Quotation does not indicate approval.–Editor.]

Henry Ford is taken to task for his latest charges against the Jews by the Chicago “Post” The paper says in part:

“The Detroit manufacturer continues, at more or less regular intervals, to indict the Jewish people of many fantastic offenses, including inconsistency. He insists that ‘the international Jew’ is the power behind the scenes in communistic Russia and in capitalistic England.’ In other words, Mr. Ford’s fabled ‘international Jew’ is setting up the machinery in one part of the world to destroy himself in another, which certainly does not give the fictitious bugaboo credit for much discernment.

“Most people who have reached maturity can recall the dangers they visioned as lurking in dark places. Common sense may have told us there was neither wolf nor burglar in the closet or behind the cellar stairs, but it was hard to feel perfectly comfortable until safely back in the glare of light. Mr. Ford has not yet succeeded in getting ‘the international Jew’ out where anyone else could examine him, but is satisfied there must be one back of the closet door.”

THE ANTI-SEMITIC EXCESSES AND ROUMANIA’S ECONOMIC PROBLEM

The statement in the Roumanian Parliament by the Minister of Public Works to the effect that Roumania must give up her principle of economic self-determination and resort to policy more attractive to foreign capital, is regarded by the “Jewish Morning Journal” as an indirect reply to the Jewish protests against the programs in Roumanian. Pointing out that foreign capitalists will not invest in Roumania while reports of anti-Jewish excesses examine from that country, the paper observes.”

“The question first can Roumania make peace with the Jews and treat them decently, even if she desired it? The masses there are as bad as the government, maybe worse. The condition of the worker and the peasant is very bad and Bolshevism across the Dniester lures to revolt. If the anger and revote were not directed against the Jew an explosion, such as the neighbors of Soviet Russia are always in front of might take place. A speedy-fundamental improvement of the situation is impossible, especially with the daily ### of a new crisis upon the death of Ferdinand. In Roumania more than elsewhere they mean the Jews when they speak of foreign capitalism and the desire to be on good status with them may be interpreted as a readiness on the part of the Roumanian government to become better though it is obvious that this will not be an easy to accomplish.”