(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Opposition to the appointment of M. de Carcer as director of the National Minorities Section of the Council of the League of Nations is voiced in the columns of the “Journal de Geneve” today.
The paper says that the appointment of M. Carcer raises important questions of principle which are bound to be discussed by the Fourth Commission at the plenary session of the League of Nations. “We feel no personal enmity whatever towards the new chief of the Minorities Section who is not known in Geneva, but who is well spoken of,” the paper writes. “His appointment, however, is the expression of a system which will lead to a state of affairs in which the Secretarial will be deprived of its non-partisanship, effectiveness and even authority.”
The paper asserts that the new director will meet with the distrust of all those persons whom he should inspire with confidence. “The appontment is regrettable from every point of view,” the paper states.
Jewish homes and hospitals in Louisville, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Denver received bequests of $100 each from the $125,000 estate of Benjamin H. Hirsch, who died September 1, it was revealed when the will was probated.
Most of the bequests are small, the major portion of the estate, being left to Mrs. Cora B. Hirsch, the widow. The bequests to institutions amount to about $1,000.
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