Expelled Physician in Palestine

Dr. M. Markosa, well-known physician of Berlin, and editor of the Sex Science Encyclopedia, has arrived in Palestine. Dr. Markosa intends to make his permanent home in Palestine.

### sumed a “hands off” policy in connection with the German drive to end the alleged boycott. The foreign chambers of commerce had been asked to join in a protest against the Israelite Chamber of Commerce, but they refused. It was quite evident that the dropping off in German trade, whether due to a boycott or to individual refusal by Jewish business men to handle German articles, is benefitting the countries whose trade here is in competition with that of Germany.

Meanwhile, with both sides in the German-Jewish commercial war taking a breathing spell, strong sentiment seems to have developed in some of the Jewish quarters in favor of disbanding the Israelite Chamber of Commerce. Those who favor this tactic point out that with the non-existence of a Jewish commercial organization such a group could no longer be made the target of allegations such as have been made in the course of the conflict here. The proponents of the idea further insist that without such a “target” the battlecry of “propaganda for defense against the Jewish organized boycott” would lose its effect and that protests such as the one made to the Mexican government would be futile if it were merely a matter of individuals trading where they chose. But the sentiment for abolition of the Jewish chamber is far from being unanimous. Leaders of that organization are vigorously opposing the movement for disbanding, stressing the contention that without organization the individual Jewish businessman will be exposed to abuses which an organization could prevent. In other words, the gist of the “standpatters” is that the Israelite Chamber of Commerce is a protective association and as such an essential body under existing conditions.

The beginning of the intense election campaigning, marked by the plebiscites on August 6 of the National Revolutionary Party, has to some extent deflected the anti-foreign feeling among the small merchants who have led the anti-Semitic movements in the past with the slogan of “Nationalism.” Mexico’s politics from now until election day, July 1, 1934, will become more and more important, and it is unlikely that the authorities, occupied with the internal problem of guiding Mexico’s economy sanely, will permit any vexatious “side issues” to develop, well informed persons believe.