Refugees Target of Attack in British Catholic Paper

Declaring that one of the most fateful problems of our time is whether there are constructive forces in Germany which are prepared for reconstruction of the moral and political order in Europe and the world, the writer Germanicus warns in the Catholic weekly Tablet that the answer has been obscured owing to the world’s reliance on emigre sources for information on the position in Germany and cautions the nations against the activities of emigre Jews.

The writer asserts that the Jews are “agile and well-versed in the approach to public opinion” and have acquired leadership in many emigre groups. He charges that their “acid criticism, which is one of their dominant qualities,” render their present activities detrimental to the cause of a just solution of the social and political problems of the future and deprives their activities of all constructive value.

“Moreover,” Germanicus adds, “it must be borne in mind that anti-Semitism will survive the present generation of Germans; reliance on Jewish activities will therefore facilitate the already greatly developed tendency of the Nazi regime to picture to the German people the governments of other states as being the tools of a sinister Jewish international. It is obvious that if the governments outside Germany continue to adopt this procedure they will weaken before long the authority of their own declarations to the German people.”

The writer contends that the German Catholics hold the key position and are, with their Protestant sympathizers, “the only binding, constructive, really European forces now existing in Germany.”