An open threat of more drastic measures against Jews if the League of Nations follows James G. McDonald’s recommendations that it intercede on their behalf with Germany, is made in German newspapers today.
The threat, carrying with it the implication of pogroms, is addressed to Jewish organizations in the United States and England.
Together with the threat, the press demands of Jewish capitalists abroad that they halt the boycott of German goods if they want efforts for mass emigration of Jews from Germany to succeed.
The warning of more drastic action against Jews in Germany is explicitly expressed in the Breslauer Neusten Nachrichten. That paper writes as follows:
“Circles behind the former High Commissioner McDonald must understand clearly that there is not the slightest chance that they will achieve any chance in Germany’s racial policies with Mr. McDonald’s recommendation. On the contrary, the difficulties which it is desired to impose upon Germany from abroad will only be conducive to a revision of the entire racial problem and a more basic solution.
“It is necessary that those circles abroad which are behind McDonald should be reminded of the warning distinctly sounded in connection with the Nuremberg laws. The Fuehrer definitely stated among other things that the Nazi Government would not permit anyone to force it from the track with respect to the racial question.
“If the Jews of Germany and abroad continue their international Jewish agitation it will become necessary to re-examine the entire situation.”
Addressing itself to Sir Herbert Samuel, British-Jewish leader who with Viscount Bearsted and Simon Marks is sailing for the United States on January 15, General Goering’s Essener National Zeitung declares that efforts to promote mass emigration will be considered by Germany only “if Jewish capitalists abroad exercise their influence to see that the Jewish boycott measures against Germany are completely stopped throughout the world.”
“Just as the Nuremberg laws liquidated the Jewish question and ended individual anti-Jewish action,” the paper concludes, “so also must the Jews bring clarity into the anti-German boycott question abroad.”
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