Now Editorial Notes

THE interview with Ambassador bingham in yesterday’s Jewish Daily Bullentin contains several illurninating statements.

Ambassador Bingham said in reference to the German situation that “the Jewish persecutions is not, in my belief, religious, but economic.”

With regard to Palestine he said:

“Immigration into Palestine should be liberalized. In addition, on account of the situation particularly in Germany, there is more reason now than ever before for immigration into palestine. It is natural and proper that Palestine should be the national homeland of the Jewish peopel, and every facility possible should be provided to enable them to go there.”

In denouncing the Silver shirts and other anti-Jewish groups in this country, Ambassador Bingham said:

“I do not believe that anti Semitism will ever gain a foot hold in America. The flurry in the United States today, Ibelieve is small and of relative in significance. The general attitude of religious tolerance and respect for the Jewish people here is too great for anti-Semitism to assume any real proportions.”

These statements from an American holding the foremost diplomatic post abroad are significant, especially in view of the fact that American diplomats are extremely guarded in what ever they say for publication.

The Ambassador’s remarks concerning the cause of the anti Jewish persecutions in Germany, describing it as economic rather religious, is only partly correct. The anti-Jewish persecutions and discriminations under the Hitler regime are jstified by the Nazis chiefly on racial grounds. A faise and absurd theory of “pure Aryanism” has been made the basis of the attacks on the Jews. In addition to this , all the exploded myths employed by anti-Semites in the past in various lands have been revivd by the Nazis. The Jews are blamed for the war and for the peace. The Jews are attacked as capitalists and as radicals. The Jews are persecuted on racial, political and also economic grounds. In other countries these pretexts had also been used in the past, but not all at the same time, as is now being done by the Nazi government.

Ambassador Bingham’s statement concerning a more liberal immigration policy with regard to Palestine is particularly interesting. It is quite clear that at this time the british Government, as the mandatory power in Palestine, is expected to adopt a policy of greater helpfulness in the matter of Jewish immigration into Palestine. It would be not only a demonstraton of sym- (Continued on page Eight)