The Week in Review

The All German Jewish Representative Body submitted a lengthy memorandum to every member of the Nazi cabinet including Adolf Hitler describing in detail anti-Jewish propaganda in the press and in public speeches, the anti-Jewish boycott and discriminations and the ruin that has overtaken German Jewry.

The memorandum asked the Nazi government to clarify the status of the Jews under the present regime and that the government punish provincial Nazi chiefs who were ignoring the order of the government not to discriminate against the Jews. . . .

A definite split Has taken place between the Reich government and the provincial Nazi chiefs over the | question of toleration for the Jews in industry. Early this week the Brown House in Munich, national Nazi headquarters, issued definite orders to provincial Nazi leaders to ignore the orders of the government and to carry on their boycott of Jewish business. . . . Efforts made by Jewish organizations to train Jewish youth in new professions and trades suffered a severe setback when provincial Nazi leaders acting on orders from Munich forbade artisans, including Jews, to accept Jewish apprentices or to employ Jews. The Artisans Chamber, in which the government has little influence, is carrying on a campaign against the Jews and deliberately ignoring the orders of the government not to discriminate against the Jews in this field. . . . Even in the ranks of the Nazi leaders there is disagreement on the treatment of the Jews. Wilhelm Kube, former leader of the Nazi faction in the Prussian Diet, sharply attacked Minister of Economics Schmitt and declared that the Jews must be completely eliminated from German life and reduced to the status of aliens. He declared that the rank and file of the Nazi party would be satisfied with nothing less.

The Welt Uienst, secret Nazi propaganda service for “Aryans abroad”, issued a call for the formation of a “Pan Aryan Front” to be based on Rumanian, Polish, Hungarian, Finnish, Greek, Swiss, Latvian and Lithuanian Nazi organizations.

Nazi Commissar of Justice Frank blames the Jewish lawyers for the bad economic plight of German lawyers. Jewish lawyers corrupted German justice, he said. The Commissar said that Roman law was’ so complicated that only the Jewish lawyers understood it. . . . Dcr Stuermer of Nuremberg, edited by Julius Strei-cher, attacked enterprises which permitted Jews to retain a financial interest and ridiculed the Jews for having the temerity to hope for betterment of their condition.

PALESTINE

A remarkable turn was given to the Arlosoroff murder trial when defense counsel Samuel declared that two Arabs were now under arrest in Jerusalem and that one of them had confessed he was one of the murderers of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff. He demanded that the Arabs be produced in court, but the police refused saying that the investigation was secret. The magistrate suggested that the defense subpoena the police files…. Fifteen members of the Brith Trum-peldor, who participated in the demonstration against the immigration policy of the Palestine government on December 9 in Tel Aviv, were sentenced to serve four months ir prison for unlawful assembly. . . Palestinian wine growers signed s contract for the export of 3,000,00( bottles of wine into the Unitec States in the coming year. . . . Tht Asifath Hanivcharim, the regularly elected assembly of the Pale stint Jewish communities will meet 01 February 12 in Jerusalem. Then will be no new elections for the as sembly this year.

AUSTRIA

Panic reigns among the Jews in the western provinces of Austria. Thousands of Jewish families in this region are packing their belongings and making plans for a hasty departure in the belief that the victory of the Austrian Nazis is only a question of a short time. Many of the Jews are flooding their relatives in Vienna with inquiries as to whether the capital offers a refugee from the Nazis, but little hope is held out to them as conditions in Vienna are bad, and the Dollfuss regime shows few signs of improving in stability.

ENGLAND

Fiendish tortures of Jewish prisoners in the concentration camp at Sonnenberg were revealed by the New Statesman, well-known liberal weekly, which declared that the notion that the terror had been ended in Germany was an illusion created by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry. Another noted liberal newspaper, the Manchester Guardian, reviewed in two articles the fate of German Jewry under Hitler. The Guardian predicted that even if persecution of the Jews is not intensified, two or three thousand Jews will leave Germany every year, mainly youth, while the older generation remains behind to face suicide or death. The Guardian also predicted that German Jewry will soon be reduced to half its present size. , . . The London Headquarters of the Jewish Agency for Palestine scored the Revisionist Union of Paris for having circulated petitions against the Mandatory power, saying that the Agency was the only recognized body representing the Zionist movement and that the petition would do harm instead of good. The Revisionists were accused of having violated the decision of the Eighteenth Zionist Congress. . . . The London Financial News, leading finance paper, scored Hitlerite tactics in expropriating the property of German Jews and declared that Hitlerism was an attack on capitalism.

GREECE

Venizelos, head of the Liberal party in Greece, delivered an ultimatum to Greek Jews in which the insisted that Greek voters give up their franchise rights, returning to the previous systems of a special electoral college for Greek Jews. This in effect would relegate them to a political ghetto. He offered to suspend the virulent anti-Semitic campaign now being carried on by the Liberal party press if they accepted his conditions. Venizelos blamed the Greek Jews for his political failures in ‘recent elections.

An anti-Jewish demonstration took place in the Greek parliament when Premier Tsaldaris defended the Greek Jews from the attack of j the anti-Semites. Led by the Greek Liberal oppositionist Deputy Apos-tolu, the anti-Semites created an uproar in parliament.

POLAND

The Polish Premier, accompanied by the Minister of Commerce, left for Palestine to be – present at the opening of the Polish pavilion at the Levant Fair in Tel Aviv … A nineteen-year-old Polish youth was jailed for a week for having shouted “down with the Jews” during an anti-Jewish demonstration . – . Four Polish Jews were chosen to represent Poland on the advisory body of the refugee commission . . . The . Polish rabinnate asked the Jews of Poland to prosecute the boycott against German goods . . – An anti-Nazi committee was organized by Polish workers and Socialists.

EGYPT

The Cairo Mixed Tribunal rejected the libel action brought by the. Italian Jew, Umberto Jabes, against the president of the Cairo German Society and a printer for having libelled him in a pamphlet issued by the society. The court dismissed the action for lack of jurisdiction, assessing him with costs. M. Castro, attorney for Jabes, announced that he would appeal the decision. The Nazi press, which had followed the case closely, was jubilant at the verdict and the case will be utilized in a nation-wide broadcast over the government-owned radio in Germany.

UNITED STATES

A delegation of American Zionist and Jewish Agency leaders presented the British Ambassador in Washington with a copy of a resolution protesting the immigration policy of the Palestine government.

The House Committee on Immigration filed a report with the House on its unofficial investigation of Nazi activities in the United States and recommended that Congress take immediate action to prevent foreign agitators from gaining a foothold in this country . . . Definite liberalization of immigration restrictions to permit the entry of German refusces under the regular immigration quota was assured when officials moved to expedite formalities involved. …In a Washington address Rabbi Stephen S. Wise asked President Roosevelt to raise his voice in protest against Hitlerism. . . More than 1,300 German refugees have entered the United States since the Hitlerite persecution began, it was announced.

Colonel Edwin Emerson, one of the leading Nazi propagandists in the United States, left suddenly for Europe on the Bremen. So secretive was the Colonel that attempts to find out his destination were unavailable. Whether the Colonel’s decision to leave was motivated by the certainty of a Congressional investigation of Nazi activities here, which would doubtless have called him as a witness, is not known.

THE REST OF EUROPE

The Hungarian government capitulated to the striking anti-Semite students and agreed to introduce strict numerus clausus for Jewish students in the universities. … A Danzig Nazi court sentenced a Jew-to serve three months in jail for expectorating on a Nazi newspaper poster. . . . Belgian Socialists instituted action against Lassaut, Belgian anti-Semite paper. The Jews of Belgium hope that the verdict will have effect on the Nazi press in Belgium. . . . French papers denied that Alexander Stavisky, center of a nasty scandal, was a Jev. Stavisky was Russian and Roman Catholic . . .