The Week in Review

Helmut Nicolai, president of th government of Magdaburg, submitted the draft o a propsosed citizenship law to the Nazi government which places Jews in the same class with Negroes, Gypsies and Poles. The law divides th pouplation of Germany into four classes withthe Jews in the lowest along with Negroes and Gypsies. Nicolai recommended minority rights for the Jews and defended anti-Semitism as a government policy. The Nazi government originally directed Nicolai to prepare this law…. Der Stuermer of Nuremberg, edited by Julius Streicher, revealed that Alcared Rosenberg, Hitler’s private for sign minister, is megotiating with Arab leaders for the transfer of the Palestine mandate to Germany. The Nazi government promptly confiscated the issue of Der Stuermer.

Prussian Premier Goering boasted that all Jews have been eliminated form state jobs in Prussia…Vice Chancellor von Papen openly told Geman Jewry in a speech that there was no hope for them and that they would be completedy eliminated from German public life.

Thuringa is carring out a racial redistrantion of all the pupulation, demanding recial history for the past sixteen generations…Jewish students in German universities are hard hit by new regulations forbidding them to use university libraries an dormitories an even typewriters except under the numerus clausus… The new reulations issued by the Chamber of German lawyers will make it imposible for Jewish lawyers to pratice their professions and penalizes Aryan lawyers to pratice…A German nature cure magazine, Der Brunnen, asserted that Jewish physicians poison Aryan patients by prescrebing narcotics. This is, of course, alleged to be a continuation of the plot of the “Elders of Zion.”

Minister of Economics Schmitt finally yielded to Nazi demands after a blunt warning in the Voelkischer Beobachter that his”pro-Jewish” tactics would not be tolerated. He invited twenty-one Nazis to occupy leading posts in the ministry. This means the end of hi campaign go ameliorate the lot of the German Jews in commerce and insutry… Dr. Robert Ley, leader of the powerful Nazi labor front told th Jews that they could not hope to change their status by becoming agruculturists. He declared that German land was for Aryans only.

Storm trooper Friedel, who assaulted his American Jewish landlord, Max Schussel, when he reminded him of overdue rent, received a sentence of seven months imprisonment from a summary court…Acting Consul General Rqaymond Geist declard that this was the quickest action the American government had obtaine in cases of assualts on Americans by Nazi.

PALESTINE

The Arab demonstrations against the influx of Jews into Palestine and the sale of land to Jews, which was held on January 17, failed miscrably. Only 1,500 to 2,000 Arabs all over Palestine turned out for the demonstraton. Even high Arab circles admitted the complete failure of the demonstration. At Acre, where the local Mufti headed the demonstration, he was heckled as soon as he began to speak. Police precautions for the expected demonstration proved to be wholly unnecessary.

The Palestine government issued a law government elections in Palestinian municipalities. Palestine i devied into twenty-three municipalities. In Tel Aviv all residents of twelve months standing, male and female over twenty-one, are eligible to vote A labor dispute in Haifa between the Histadruth and the Revisionists resulted in the arrest of fifty-eight combatanst in a sreies of clashes between the two groups. The Revisionists are laleged to have been acting as strike breakers… the Government of Palestine issued a new libel law which i expected to check the irresponsible Arab press.

POLAND

Polish hooligans beonging to the Endek party attacked Jews on th street of Lodz, an also poured chemicals over goods in Jewish shops. Rabbi Zvi Mendelsohu of Prague was brutally beaten by the Endeks. Polish courts promptly sentenced twenty-one of the attackers to varying prison sentences… An Endek deputy in the Polish parliament attacked the Jews for crowding the ranks of the artisans.

Zionist laborites and Rivisionists fought each other on th streets of Vilno and Warsaw. Feeling between the two groups is running high because of the Haifa incident.

The London Jewish Chronicle correspondent reported that Ukrainians in the East Galician province of Poland are conducting a reign o terro against the Jewish population fo the provice. Jewish houses are burned an Jewish stores boycotted by the Ukrainians. The Ukrainians are making the Jews the scapegoat for their failure to free themselves from Polish domination.

FRANCE

French. Jewry contributed nine million francs for German Jewish refugee work, Baron de Rothschild revealed.. The French government bestowed the title of Knight of the Legion o Honor upon Dr. Samuel Kopetzky, noted phusician of New York, for his collaboration in medical science with French physicians… Paris papers disclosed that the Nazi government carefully refrained from inviting a number o non-Aryan countries to prticiparte in the 1936 Olympic games.

AUSTRIA

Austrian Jewry fears the collagse fo the Dollfuss regime in view fo the defection fo part f the Heimwehr to the Nazi revolt in Austrai are curent in Veinna, with revenge upon the Jews as the first measure to be adopted by the Nazis.. M.E. Tenenblat cheif Austrain corresspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, was told by the police that he would be deported if his dispatches continued unfavorable to the government When he protested that his dispatches were carfully phrased and were not anti-government in tendency, the Austrian police chief in charge of censorship merely reiterated the warning… Austrian anti-semitic parpers warned the industrialsit’s asociation to have nothing to do with the boycott of German goods in the United States It was propsoed to replace German goods in the American markets with Austrian.

GREECE

Leading Greek newspapers revealed that Germam Nazis had spent ten million drachms for Nazi propaganda in Greece. The papers protested the open, insolent action of the chief Nazi agent in Greece.

UNITED STATES

Professor Raymond Moley, editor of Today. assailed American inertia in not admitting German refugees and declared that America is committed to the principal of asylum for political and religious refugees… James N. Rosenberg, well-known Jewish attorney saided for Europe to consult with James G. McDonald, High Commissioner for Refugees, on a solutionfor the refugee problem. High commissioner McDonald left for Europe earlier in th week to continue his work… Congressman Dickstien predicted early congressman Dickstein predicte early consideration for his bill to investigate Nazi activities in the United States. He ha the backing of the entire House committee on Immigration..A merchandising council to include 900 representatives of trade and industry in New York was formed for the prosencution of the anti-Nazi boycott

Professor Albert Einstein turned printer of a day and st the first line of type for the new enlarged edition of the Jewish Daily Bulletin, only Jewish daily newspaper printed in English La## in the week, Professor Einste# made his American debut as a vi## linitst in a concert together wife Toscha Seidel, Harriet Cobeu, Leo Barzin an Ossip Gisken, Two hundred and sixty-six New Yorker paid $6,600 to hear the distinguished scientist play the second violin.