Report Britain to Open Tanganyika to Refugees; Aid Sought in Other Countries

The diplomatic correspondent of the People (independent) reported today that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain would tell the House of Commons tomorrow that Great Britain has picked Germany’s former possession of Tanganyika as a homeland for German Jewish refugees, “no matter how much the step displeases Hitler.”

Assassination of a German Embassy aid at Paris was only the pretext for a Reich anti-Semitic campaign which had been carefully prepared beforehand, the Board of Deputies of British Jews was told today by President Neville Laski. “I am firmly convinced that the Nazis are bent upon the entire destruction of the Jews in Germany and would have found the occasion sooner or later, even if the Paris murder had not occurred,” he said.

The Board voted a resolution thanking the British Government for its efforts in the German Jews’ behalf and urging it to use its influence with Berlin for improvement of the Jews’ position. It called upon Britain to make representations to the Reich as to the necessity “for permitting emigrants to remove their property with them.”

Declaring the refugee problem had long passed the stage where it could be handled by private organizations, League Refugee Commissioner Sir Neill Malcolm said in the Daily Sketch that intergovernmental action was urgently needed and expressed the hope that it would be quickly forthcoming. Sir Neill reviewed the Jewish position in Europe, stressing the ever increasing growth in the number of refugees and coming to the conclusion that of all nations Russia alone might conceivably be in a position to admit large numbers of immigrants. He said Australia and Canada needed population for its own growth but could not admit great numbers of refugees because of the state of the labor market. Conditions in South America and the British colonies, he declared, were no more promising.