Goebbles Sees International Solution of Jewish Question; Surveys Ignore Anti-semitic Acts

The 12-Uhr Blatt features a New York symposium of 25 Jews baiters in various European countries on the Jewish question. Reichsminister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels warns “international Jewry” that “neither loud cries and boycotts nor other acts of terrorism can sway Germany from her course; moreover, the Jewish problem will be solved internationally, when and in what ways being a question for the future.”

Premier Bela Imredy of Hungary reviews Hungary’s anti-Semitic laws and predicts that “the question of Jewish ownership of land” will be taken up in Budapest’s new Afraian law. Arnold Spencer Leese, chief of the British Imperial Fascist League, is quoted as attacking numerous leading British statesmen as the alleged tools of Jews. Telesio Interlard, director of the newspaper Tevere of Rome, predicts Italy will be cleared of its last Jew within the next generation. Other leading anti-Semites of France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Sweden contributed to the article.

Nothing happened to the Jews in Germany in 1938, according to year-end chronological surveys published in newspapers throughout the Reich. On Nov. 10, the day that Germany shocked the world by launching the most spectacular and destructive anti-Semitic excesses of President Mustopha Kemal Ataturk of Turkey. While ignoring completely the fate of German Jewry, the reviews approvingly noted Hungary’s adoption of anti-Semitic laws, the emergence of the short-lived anti-Semitic regime of the late Octavian Goga in Rumania in January and Arabs clashes with the British in Palestine.

The Nazis’ New Year’s resolution is to bring England to German’s way of thinking in regard to Jews and Communists. Field Marshal Hermann Goering’s Essener National-Zeitung declares: “For the first time since the emancipation of Germany from Jewry great classes of Englishmen and Frenchment recognized during the critical days of the September war scare that international Jewry stands in the forefront of those who, for selfish interests, want war. The recognition seems deeper and more widespread among the French than the English. Despite this, the German people will not give up the hope that in England, too, recognition will grow of the necessity of common defense of cultured states against Jewry and Bolshevism.

Synagogue services were resumed Saturday in four of Berlin’s twelve synagogues for the first time since Nov. 10. No attempt was made to reopen the eight temples wholely or partly razed in the campaign of synagogue destruction which accompanied the November anti-Jewish excesses. (Police informed Berlin rabbis last month that “the Jews may hold religious services at their own risk; we are not in a position to protect them.” As a result, religious services were cancelled in the capital, and probably throughout Germany.)