The Week in Review

The death knell of the Jewish higher schools in Germany, both high schools and colleges was sounded in an order issued by Dr. Bernhard Rust, Nazi Minister of Education for Prussia, who forbade the enrollment of new students in the Jewish schools this year.

Dr. Rust’s orders also made certain that Jews would be admitted to the German universities only in proportion to their number in the general population and only after being hand picked by the Nazis, admitting those least objectionable to the Nazi rulers.

The Nazi Minister’s instructions provide that even these few Jewish students are to be admitted only after the “Aryan” quotas are filled, and if there are too many “Aryan” applicants there will be no place for Jewish students.

At the same time, Dr. Wilhelm Frick, whose recent visit to Palestine aroused so much speculation, announced that graduate doctors, dentists and chemists, applying for licenses to practice would not be admitted if there was a suspicion that they were not “morally and nationally trustworthy.”

This is regarded in well informed circles as merely another weapon in the hands of the Nazis to enable them to prevent Jewish students from surmounting the barriers to the practice of their professions.

A bitter attack on the Jews of Germany was made this week by Hitler’s Minister of Agriculture, Richard Walter Darre, who declared in an article in the Deutsche Zeitung that all the political parties in Germany, Conservative, Liberal and Marxist, had been organized by the Jews, “who made their political marionettes dance for selfish Jewish ends.”

Provincial German papers are once more filled with articles and slogans calling for a boycott against all Jewish business. The Nazi papers call upon the Germans to “hit the Jew in his pocket book.”

Captain Ernst von Roehm, commander of the Nazi storm troops and minister without portfolio in the Nazi cabinet, told an assembly of foreign diplomats and foreign newspapermen that he was “astonished” at the “indulgence” with which the Nazis had treated their opponents.

PALESTINE

Interest in Jewish Palestine is once more centered on the trial of the men accused of the murder of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, Laborite Zionist leader.

Acting on an affidavit submitted by Inspector-General Roy G. B. Spicer, commander of the Palestine police, stating that the jail in Jaffa was inadequate, and that public security demanded the removal of the trial from Jaffa to Jerusalem, the court ordered the trial to be held in Jerusalem. The trial will begin on April 23.

Defense counsel Horace Samuel objected to the change of venue, submitting affidavits from Mayor Dizengoff and vice-mayor Rokach of Tel Aviv guaranteeing public peace in Tel Aviv during the trial.

Dr. Judah L. Magnes, chancellor of the Hebrew University and the vice-chancellor, Dr. Max Schloessinger, left Palestine for the United States where they will attend a conference of the American Friends of the Hebrew University.

GREAT BRITAIN

British Jews marked “German Jewry’s Day” with large meetings in synagogues and Jewish communal institutions, where appeals were made for support of the British Central Relief Fund. Outstanding Jewish and non-Jewish personalities addressed the meetings.

Leonard Montefiore, president of the Anglo-Jewish Association, told a meeting of the Board of Deputies of British Jews that there was hardly a Jewish family in Germany without some utterly destitute member.

Eighteen German clothing manufacturing concerns announced their plan to establish branch factories in England. Ostensibly they are moving to England to be able to compete in the British market, but in well informed circles the move is held to be an obvious attempt to escape the boycott on German-made goods. The German factories in England will be able to mark their goods, “made in England.” The German government granted permission for the move, but laid down conditions, which would assure complete Nazi control of the factories.

A lengthy dispatch in the London Times from a Berlin correspondent reviewed in detail the persecution of the Jews in Germany since the one-day boycott against them last April. The Times declares that it is obvious that the Germans are continuing their drive against the Jews and points out that the Nazis have still to learn that the Jews cannot be shut into a “trade ghetto” and cannot even be kept out of the professions.

The Times completely confirmed earlier dispatches of the Jewish Telegraph Agency on the state of terror and the pogroms against the Jews in Bavaria, particularly Franconia.

THE REST OF EUROPE

Jurists attached to the League of Nations at Geneva stated in a memorandum that should the Saar plebiscite to be held in 1935 decide in favor of returning to Germany, the League will be unable to impose special obligations on Germany for the protection of the Jewish and other minority groups in the Saar region.

In a memorandum attached to a public health plan approved by Premier Mussolini, the Italian government stated that it is concerned with producing a healthy nation regardless of racial origins. Thus the Italians once more made it clear that they reject the Nazi racial theories.

The Czechoslovakian government banned anti-Semitic books written by Nazi leaders and the Munich edition of the notorious “Protocols of the Elder of Zion.” A number of Nazi newspapers and magazines were also barred from circulation in Czechoslovakia.

High Commissioner for German Refugees James G. McDonald and Norman Bentwich, head of the Jewish Affairs division of his office, have been on a tour of the refugee centers of Europe, including Warsaw, Vienna and Prague.

Polish anti-Semites dissatisfied with the progress of the anti-Semitic anti-government political party known as the Endeks, organized the National Radical party on the basis of the complete acceptance of the Hitlcrite program toward the Jews.

The Endeks in turn held a conference and called for an increase in the anti-Semitism of their own group in order to retain their hold on their membership.

THE UNITED STATES

Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, issued a statement to American Jewry calling for complete unity in order to stem the disaster which has befallen the Jews of Germany and which may affect Jews all over the world.

Nazi adherents in New York held two large meetings in Brooklyn and Manhattan calling for boycotts against the American Jews. Jewish leaders here were reviled at the meetings and the Nazi leaders announced a plan for setting up a German department store in New York City for faithful Nazis to patronize.

Galahad Press, Inc., publishers of Liberation, notorious anti-Semitic paper edited by William Dudley Pelley, chief of the Silver Shirts, was made defendant in an involuntary bankruptcy on the motion of the creditors, who testified that the Galahad Press owes large sums of money.