thus Germans will be able to get it without paying for it.”
The appeal also points out that the Jews in the Saar have no place to which to emigrate because they will not be permitted into the countries lying west of the Saar. Their desperate plight is indescribable, it continues. It is much worse than the position of the Jews in Germany, especially since none of them can say what is going to happen to them twelve months after the plebiscite, when the Jews will be forced to move out of the Saar, under the agreement reached between Germany and France and sanctioned by the League of Nations.
WORLD CONSCIENCE HOPE
“The conscience of the world is the only ray of light in this situation. The civilized nations of the world must be made to realize that the national minorities of the Saar cannot be delivered to a regime which has no human feelings and does not practice any mercy. It must not happen that a population which has for fifteen years been under the protection of the League of Nations should suddenly be turned over to a system where the Jews are persecuted and find no justice. The entire world must do something to influence the League of Nations to carry out its obligation of protecting national minorities. It must understand that 5,000 Jews in the Saar must not perish.”
Dr. Ruelph also believes that the situation of the Saar can be relieved if the plebiscite will result in the division of the Saar region into two parts, one of which should remain under League control. Should this be the case, then the Jewish population in the Saar region could, under the existing relations be entitled to move into the autonomous territory and thus avoid the difficulties of being placed under the Nazi regime.
SECOND EDITION
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