Considerable dissatisfaction with the settlement of German Jewish refugees in Eastern France is expressed in resolutions and letters to the press from local chambers of commerce. According to these groups forty thousand German refugees have invaded the district. Most of the refugees are Jews.
Although the majority of the complainants show appreciation of the Jewish plight, they urge the League of Nations to help since Eastern France alone cannot bear the entire burden. The largest group of the refugees have come into Eastern France because it is near the German border, and the French population there understands German.
Only the Metz chamber of commerce has actually indulged in anti-Semitism, declaring that the majority of the refugees were highly undesirable types and constituted a serious danger to honest French traders.
The Paris Midi suggested that thousands of German Jewish doctors now in exile in France be settled in the French colonies, particularly in Africa, in order to check the abnormally high death rate there, since French doctors are reluctant to emigrate to the French colonies.
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