News Brief

France, it was announced today, is cooperating with the United States and Great Britain in attempting to facilitate the departure of German refugees from the Third Reich. The French Embassy at Berlin, it was learned, has been authorized to cooperate with the British and American Embassies and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees in an effort to induce the Reich to allow refugees to remove some of their property on leaving the country.

At the same time Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, who has been studying the refugee problem closely, reiterated before the Cabinet today France’s firm intention to yield no colonial territory to the Third Reich. Bonnet has been conferring with aides here on France’s part in the general effort now under way to solve the refugee problem. Yesterday he saw State Councillor Andre Heilbronner, representing various private committees working in behalf of the Jews and today he conferred with Senator Henri Berenger, chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.

It was estimated that 20,000 Frances (about $500) is required to establish a refugee in another country. Effort will be made in Berlin to see if refugees can be permitted to leave with at least this sum in their possession.

Five Jewish and non-Jewish organizations today cabled Secretary of State Cordell Hull asking him to intervene at the Pan-American Conference, to be held next month at Lima, Peru, for admission of refugees to South American countries.

Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, famous criminal attorney, today announced that he will conduct the defense of Herschel Grynszpan, 17-year-old Polish Jew who assassinated Ernst vom Rath, German Embassy official, last week. He will be assisted by attorneys H. Schwarc and De Vesinne Larue.