Jewish members of the Canadian House of Commons, S. W. Jacobs, A. A. Heaps and Samuel Factor, waited on the Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett, Premier and Minister of External Affairs, in connection with the situation in Germany. They asked on behalf of Canadian Jews that steps be taken to ascertain the nature of the mistreatment suffered by German Jews under the Nazi rule.
Premier Bennett received the delegation sympathetically and undertook to communicate with Dr. Oscar Skelton, Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs, who is at present in London, requesting him to prepare a report on the German situation.
The delegation took the view that Germany, being a member of the League of Nations, one of whose functions was the safeguarding of racial and religious rights, it would be appropriate for Canada, as a member of the League, to take action in protection of Jewish rights.
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