just a few weeks ago.
Unlike Germany and unlike the Saar, Danzig would be completely crippled if Jews abroad were actually to organize an economic boycott against this Free City, the existence of which depends chiefly upon its harbor. Unlike Germany and the Saar, Danzig is still under the supervision of the League of Nations. There is still time to do something for the Danzig Jews. Even the Danzig Nazis themselves only a year ago sent their delegations to Jews abroad asking that the Jews should not include Danzig in the sphere of their boycott activities.
Parallel with their ambitions to obtain Danzig is the Nazi bid made this week for a plebiscite in Austria. It is quite clear now that Hitler’s government has worked out a program for the immediate future to make Danzig, Austria and Memel parts of the Reich. This explains, perhaps, the tendency which the Austrian government showed last week to revise certain anti-Jewish laws. Anxious to fight Hitler off Austria, the Schuschnigg government wishes at least to regain the lost Jewish goodwill.
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