News Brief

The Jewish problem will be discussed here along two international lines when Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, returns the visit of Dr. Schacht this week and an official Polish delegation arrives to resume the negotiations on the fate of the Polish Jews in Germany. Informed observers doubt that much will be accomplished by Mr. Norman’s short visit, but point out that he may learn whether Germany is willing to compromise on Dr. Schacht’s plan for emigration linked to increased exports, which has been generally unfavorably received in London.

Regarding the Polish delegation, authoritative quarters let it be known that the negotiations concern the question of “the return to Poland of Polish Jews living in Germany.” However, it is believed that there are three principal points in the agenda: (1) what is to be done about the property of the already deported Polish Jews, (2) the extent to which further deportations will be carried out and under what property transfer conditions, and (3) general questions arising from Poland’s denaturalization campaign, which has already left hundreds of Polish Jews here stateless.

The crux of the matter seems to lie in how far Poland is determined to carry on its denationalization. The Nazis definitely will not tolerate an increase in the number of stateless. They prefer to deport Jews while there is still a country to which they can be expelled.

It was revealed today that 2,726 persons were denaturalized by Germany since July 1, the overwhelming majority of them Jews. The number denaturalized in the last six months exceeds by 200 than the number deprived of citizenship in the preceding five and a half years.