The Week in Review

Behind a cloud of carefully fostered rumors that the Nazis were ## in their persecution of the Jews and were relaxing in their assaults on Jewish existence in ## Reich, the campaign of extermination of the Jews continued inexorably last week.

A new boycott campaign promoted by the National Socialist Traders and Artisans Association, the Hago, was in full progress despite its widely publicized prohibition by Chancellor Hitler and other Nazi luminaries. Around Nuremberg especially shops were prohibited from selling bread to ## who are starving as a result ##boycott; Jewish shops have been compelled to display anti Jewish signs in their windows. All over Germany, and particularly in the provincial centers, meetings of Nazi merchants were held at which “pep talks” were given by local petty Hitlers in their attempt to intensify the campaign against the Jews.

Continuing the government’s attempts to block every move to make some sort of living on the part of the harassed Jewish professional man, the Deutsche Justiz, official organ of the Reich Ministry of Justice, came out with an announcement that the term “ex-lawyer” must no longer be used by Jewish lawyers, because its use gives the impression that they are still trying to do business.

The cattle markets in several German cities have been divided into two sections, “Aryans” are prevented from buying from Jews. And at the same time, teeth were put in to the Nazi anti-shechita law by the issuing of new instructions against killing poultry in the man## prescribed by Jewish law. The ## it seems, considered the ## “cruel” and against Nazi “humanitarian dictates.”

PALESTINE

Unity in Zionist ranks still {SPAN}##{/SPAN} more a vision than a reality. {SPAN}##{/SPAN} a stormy twelve-day confer{SPAN}##{/SPAN} the Actions Committee of the World Zionist Organization ended its sessions, failing to elect a successor to the late Leo Motzkin as its presiding officer.

The Revisionist faction, as well as the Mizrachi, and opposition General Zionist representatives are still excluded from the Zionist executive. Proposals to admit any of these groups invariably were the signal for prolonged and heated discussion.

The committee adopted a number of resolutions. It protested against the proposed income tax in Palestine, and called upon Palestinian Jews to apply for naturalization. Nine thousand pounds were assigned to Zionist political activities in London and Jerusalem.

Turning to the troubling problem of disorders within Zionist ## the committee decided that violence of any type should be severely punished.

A Zionist court of honor, meeting in Jerusalem in connection with the committee meeting, concluded its hearing on complaints against the B’rith Trumpeldor, Revisionist youth organization, which had been accused of seeking Palestine immigration certificates independently of the Zionist Executive. The Revisionist had refused to appear. It was announced that a decision would be forthcoming this week.

AUSTRIA

Jews in Austria are uncertain {SPAN}##{/SPAN} alarmed over the country. Even an hour-long interview be{SPAN}##{/SPAN} Dr. Desider Friedmann, {SPAN}##{/SPAN}of the Vienna Jewish {SPAN}##{/SPAN}and Chancellor Engel{SPAN}##{/SPAN} Dollfuss could not dispel their {SPAN}##{/SPAN}over the growing Jew-consciousness of the Austrians. The interview it was learned, touched on the whole problem, discussing particularly the “cultural parts of the new constitution.”

The likelihood that only anti Semites will hold office in the newly-created Vienna presidency is also causing concern in##Jewry. It is expected that Richard Schmuetz will be appointed mayor of Vienna and that the vice-mayors will be members of the Christian Social storm troops and the Heimwehr.

RUMANIA

Cornelius Zelea Codreanu, head of the Iron Guard, anti-Semitic organization, and forty-five associates were acquited by a Rumanian court martial sitting in Bucharest on the charge of having murdered the late Premier Ion G. Duca. Nicholas Constantinescu and two associates were sentenced to life imprisonment for the actual crime.

The military court consisted of four Rumanian generals and one judge. The verdict was announced without any reasons being given. Codreanu was freed despite the fact that his paper had openly called for the murder of the Premier.

Considerable alarm is felt among the Rumanian Jews at the verdict. Their alarm is, however, allayed by the knowledge that King Carol is against anti-Semitism and has sufficient power to curb the Iron Guard.

THE REST OF EUROPE

The pre-arranged Passover relief for Polish Jews proved pitifully inadequate for the filling of the wants of the impoverished masses. In Warsaw, Lodz, Wilno, Bialystok and Lwow, half the Jewish population is appealing for relief. The situation in the small towns is catastrophic.

On the other hand, the Polish anti-Nazi campaign has been strengthened by the cabled reports from this country that the boycott here is succeeding. Doubters, fortified by the Polish-German trade pact, were once more convinced of the future success of the movement.

SOUTH AMERICA

THE UNITED STATES

Washington is closely watching developments in Germany under the Hitler regime. Since Ambassador Dodd’s return to Washington, rumors keep cropping up as to the trade pact said to be under consideration. Authentic reports insist that Germany’s financial crisis is serious, and that her policy of nationalism and persecution is forcing her into a state of economic paralysis.

Since it is admitted that the negotiation of a trade pact would necessitate the stopping of the boycott here, it follows, according to observers, that this could only happen when Germany herself abandons the theory of persecution and race hatred. Reports that Germany may do this because of the acute economic pressure gained circulation although anti-Semitism is the base tenet of Nazism.

Congressman John W. McCormack of Massachusetts was named chairman of the House committee charged with investigating Nazi propaganda in this country. Congressman Samuel Dickstein, whose anti-Nazi work is crowned with the formation of this committee, announced that he would not accept chairmanship, on the supposition that a Jewish chairman might hamper its work.

George H. Earle 3rd, retiring American Minister to Austria, returned home voicing the assurance that Jews in Austria have nothing to fear, that Dollfuss is personally sympathetic to the Jews and that there is no chance of Austrian Nazis seizing control of the country.

H. L. Mencken, writer and critic, returning from a Mediterranean cruise, declared that Great Britain is treating the Jews as “suckers.” He highly praised Jewish development of Palestine and declared he was impressed deeply by achievements there.

Mandel Brothers, largest Jewish-owned department store in the country outside of New York, and one of Chicago’s greatest mercantile establishments, joined the boycott.

Ernst Hanfstaengel, Hitler’s intimate adviser and friend, accepted, then declined an invitation to return to Harvard to take part in the commencement ceremonies at which his class of ’09 will celebrate its twenty-fifth ## Protests of Jewish alumni and a storm of criticism followed the first announcement and are believed to have red to the Nazi leader’s change of mind.

DEATHS OF A WEEK

Death this week took Professor Hermann Schlesinger, Vienna physician…. Professor Alberto Olivetti, authority on Italian literature…. Abraham Freedman, vice-president of the Free Synagogue, New York…. Sir Lewis Richardson, Cape Town ostrich feather exporter…. Gustave Drachman, for twenty years counsel of the Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America, aged seventy, after a six weeks illness.