World Press Digest

The Manchester Guardian, in a long article devoted to Maimonides in connection with his 800th birthday, says:

The created world displayed to us by Maimonides is one in which natural law is supreme. The world is patterned on its creator, and its creator is one; nor is he capricious; his monarchy is constitutional. This conception gives the key to a logic for science: the book of nature is a book of law. But since nature is the work of God, natural law is the law of God. Science is thus more than science. It is the gateway to religion. This idea of the divine reference of the rational universe has sometimes made Maimonides seem a pure rationalist. Rationalist indeed he was, but his rationalism was of a kind which was impregnated perforce by historical and psychological considerations.

The breadth of his intellectual interests reflects a breadth of human sympathy, and Maimonides’ correspondence abounds with touches which suggest not the mere student but the leader and educator.

REPORT NAZI-U. S. RADIO EXCHANGE

Mr. Ludwig Lore writes in the New York Post as follows:

Hearst newspapers, usually exceptionally well informed regarding Nazi propaganda, reported several days ago that negotiations are being attempted with the State Department in Washington which “if successful would eventuate in an exchange of broadcast programs between the networks hereabouts and German radio stations… The purpose back of the German overtures,” the dispatch continues, “is to neutralize as far as possible hostile sentiment in the United States concerning the German dictator.”

Official Nazi propaganda with Washington’s stamp of approval?… It sounds fantastic! Attention, anti-Fascists…!

RANDOLPH CHURCHILL LAUDS BANKER JEWS

The London Morning Post, reporting a speech delivered by Randolph Churchill on the Jews, quotes him as saying:

“Only two races in the world understand banking—the English and the Jews.

“As a result of the liberal and tolerant treatment meted out in this country, we have probably the finest set of Jews in the world. It is only because the Germans are such a dull, brutish people that they cannot compete with the Jews.”

In England, said Mr. Churchill, Fascists were trying more and more to imitate the Hitler form of Fascism than the more benignant form of Mussolini. “Fascism is stamped with the same mark of blonde beast as the Nazi party.”