World Press Digest

The Spokesman of Louisville, Ky., commenting on Lord Melchett’s article in the London Times demanding the opening of Transjordan for Jewish immigration, says editorially:

When Lord Melchett, in an article in the London Times, recommends that Transjordan be opened to Jewish immigration, he unknowingly loaded the Revisionists’ cannon with gunpowder for their present bombardment of America. Not only did Melchett endorse a salient plank in the Revisionist platform, but he at the same time placed his stamp of approval on the Revisionist method of diplomacy.

Melchett, wise in the ways of diplomacy, did not urge England to open the doors of Transjordan to Jews because Jews are good people, deserving people, or for any like reason. No. Instead he preferred to gain his point by telling Great Britain that if Jews were prohibited from entering Transjordan, which is under British Mandate, they would settle in Syria, which is under French Mandate; and if Jews did settle in large numbers and did colonize Syria, England would be helping build up in the Eastern Mediterranean just such a competitor for trade and power that she fought the Crimean War to prevent.

PRAISES COMMITTEE ON ITS REPORT

The Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, commenting editorially on the report of the American Jewish Committee, says:

The American Jewish Committee did well to re-emphasize the baselessness as well as the menacing character of the anti-Jewish agitation now in full swing in this country. Unfortunately the effort to discredit the Federal Administration by exploiting anti-Jewish prejudices, reprehensible though it is, is gaining ground. Time and again it has been pointed out that there is no foundation for the accusation that Jews outnumber all others holding public office, yet there are those who continue to spread this canard. What is worse, there are those who believe it.

A NEW NAZI VIEW OF RELATIVITY

Everyman, a London publication, carries the following editorial:

Much has been said and written about relativity since Professor Einstein introduced his conclusions to a world which, for the most part, was not quite up to them. Now a Nazi professor has announced that there is nothing at all in the whole idea but “an example of mass-suggestion put over by the Jewish press.” If that is an example of forcibly feeding the masses with ideas that they can instantly grasp, some of us would like to see an instance of giving them something that is really beyond the range of their limited comprehension. If it be “mass-suggestion” that has put relativity on the map, the masses must be equipped with a far more accomplished and receptive type of intelligence than they are ordinarily given credit for.

CAUSTIC COMMENT ON LONDON DAILY

Time and Tide, a London publication, carries the following editorial

The changes in the policy of Rothermere Press, which were noted last week, have evidently not come to an end yet. Having found a clergyman to write a splash article on why he admires Hitler, the Daily Mail high control this week decided it had better have an article by a Jew, drawing attention to the persecutions which the Jewish people have suffered, and explaining why he is proud to be a Jew.

This presentation of two sides of a question is not at all like our old Daily Mail.