Doubt that the economic situation of the German Jews is improving in any way was expressed here today by Sir Leonard Montefiore, prominent Jewish leader, in an address before the Anglo-Jewish Association.
Discussing the report of the Joint Foreign Committee on the German Jewish situation, Sir Leonard stressed the seriousness of that situation and pointed out that the propaganda activities of Julius Streicher’s Stuermer and of other anti-Semitic periodicals have not abated. In Hesse and in Franconia, Sir Leonard declared, anti-Jewish feeling is stronger than ever before.
In a reference to Iraq the speaker said that he does not believe the anti-Semitic movement there is of serious proportions. Rumors of dismissals of Jews, he said, were actually only an outgrowth of employment shiftings.
Neville Laski, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, reporting on the Joint Foreign Committee’s findings concerning the recent anti-Jewish disturbances in Algeria, disclosed that the Alliance Israelite has taken the matter up with the government in Paris.
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