World Press Digest

Sir John Foster Fraser, writing on Germany in the London Evening Chronicle, says:

When German directors of opinion—Hitler, Goering and Goebbels—proclaim their peaceful intentions to all the world it would be discourteous not to believe them. At the same time there seems a constant endeavor to stir up animosity against Germany in other countries, even when the hostility shows signs of dying down.

Another bitter campaign against the Jews is on. The grossest insults are again being flung at them. So life is one long nightmare to these hounded people.

Even Herr Rosenberg, the chief of the culture department, with whom I had a long talk when last I was in Berlin, has made a scurrilous attack on them. That tubby little anti-Semite, Herr Julius Streicher, editor of Der Stuermer, whom I met in Nuremberg last year, has in his paper renewed his abominable allegations against the Jews.

I would add that a letter from Munich assures me Julius Streicher’s outrageous assertions are received with disgust by reputable German citizens.

PRAISES WORK OF MACCABIS

Discussing the Maccabi world movement, the Manchester Guardian writes:

The Maccabi World Union, of which the British Maccabi Association is a branch, has brought into the life of Jewish young people, particularly in those countries in which freedom is unfortunately restricted and persecution not unknown, a new spirit of hope and a meed of enjoyment such as no other activity can afford. It has imbued them with eagerness for invigorating physical recreation, and has bred in them a desire for emulation of the achievements of leading athletes in the various realms of international sport. Already, in a few short years, extraordinary progress has been made. In several countries in Europe, in the United States, in India, South Africa, Tunis, Australasia, and elsewhere, they have produced champions in various branches of athletics.