World Press Digest

The Manchester Guardian, de-Spanish-Jewish philosopher. Prior gem, Algeria, says:

Three thousand men, officially described as “discontented unemployed,” came into conflict with the police and smashed in the course of the rioting the windows of the town hall and of a large number of shops. The sub-prefect of the district and some soldiers and civilians were slightly injured, but, it is stated, “order appears to have been restored by nine o’clock at night.”

Although two-thirds of the rioters are said to have been Europeans there seems little doubt that the riots had much in common with the numerous anti-French and anti-Jewish riots that have occurred in Algeria in the past two years.

WHAT BRITAIN ASKS OF NAZI GERMANY

The London Daily Telegraph, analyzing the British attitude towards the Nazis, says:

Public opinion here is not hostile to Germany. It is deeply disturbed by the militaristic revival in Germany, and hates the Nazi war on liberty as it hates the Fascist tyranny in Italy and the Communist tyranny in Russia.

But it is not concerned with the domestic iniquities of Germany any more than with the domestic iniquities of Russia. It wants neither exclusive enmities nor exclusive friendships. It wants European reconciliation and collective protection against war, with Nazi Germany inside the League side by side with Communist Russia and Fascist Italy and Republican France.

PLANS YIDDISH DAILY IN PALESTINE

The Newspaper World, a London publication, brings the following report from Palestine:

Mr. Morris Eisenman, president of the Metropolitan News Co., of New York, distributors of dailies, who has taken a keen interest in Jewish publishing enterprises in Palestine, is now visiting that country with a view it is understood, to establishing a Yiddish morning journal there.

Not long ago the attempt by a small group to set up a Yiddish paper in the country created a heated controversy, followed by a boycott; and it may be, if Mr. Eisenman goes forward with his plans, that troubles of the sort will be repeated on a bigger scale.

TRIBUNE SUPPORTS FEDERATION APPEAL

The New York Herald Tribune, commenting editorially on the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, says:

For more than ten years, the Borough of Brooklyn has been the largest of the five boroughs in population. In the early 1920’s it passed Manhattan; it is now more than half as large again. Despite the sensational growth of Queens and the Bronx, it still very nearly equals their joint total.

Therefore everything in Brooklyn is of major concern to the whole city—as producer, as consumer, as the center of social problems peculiarly that borough’s own, yet ultimately related to the welfare of the whole metropolitan area. Of such is the urgent appeal soon to be made in behalf of the Jewish Charities of Brooklyn. These needs are not served by the so-called Federation of New York City—which supports the ninety-one agencies of Manhattan and the Bronx. The twenty-five Jewish welfare societies of the Brooklyn Federation must look to the forthcoming drive for their sole revenues.

The quota to be sought—and inescapably demanded by minimum needs—is $543,500.

SCOFFS AT RACE PURITY CLAIMS OF NAZIS

The Herald Tribune comments on Hitler’s racial policy as follows:

There is probably no more futile task for either the historian or the ethnologist than that of convincing the Germans, whether as a national or as a linguistic group, that their claim to racial purity or distinction cannot be scientifically established. Some very brilliant and influential German scholars have tried it without success. If the Germans themselves made no point of asserting their imagined “Aryan” purity and consequent superiority, there would certainly be no point in arguing with them about it. But when they accept and acclaim false Nazi appraisals of their racial status as sufficient reasons for denationalizing and persecuting minority elements in their own population or for territorial expansion at the expense of others, they invite close and critical study of their racial make-up.

SOVIET FIRES TEACHERS IN YIDDISH SEMINARIES

A number of instructors in the Jewish Teachers’ seminaries in Stalindorf and New Witebsk were dismissed today upon a sudden order from Moscow.

No arrests were made among those dismissed. The teachers are charged with spreading Yiddishistic, nationalistic and Trotsky-ist ideas.