World Press Digest

The Manchester Guardian, in an editorial commenting on the present situation in Danzig, where 8,000 Jews are exposed to the mercy of the Nazis, says:

The Nazi Terror goes on; it is not so annihilating as the Nazis could have made it if they had polled two-thirds of the vote, but its cumulative effect, day in, day out, threatens to become unendurable. The Socialist Volksstimme has just been banned for five months on the most trivial pretext. By ruining the Opposition press and by violence done to persons the Nazis hope to make Danzig a Third Realm in miniature. The Danzig Constitution is guaranteed by the League, which is represented by its Commissioner, Mr. Sean Lester. He has no easy task, and without any Executive he can do little. Nevertheless, the scandalous conditions at Danzig deserve more attention than they get, and he can at least see that they get it. Besides, what is Poland doing? Is she so blinded by her newly awakened affection for Germany, so regardless of the principles for which the League is supposed to stand, and so indifferent to the danger of serious trouble on her own borders that she cannot or will not carry the present affairs of Danzig into the Geneva forum?

MOONEY AND CAUSES NOT RELATED

The London Daily Telegraph, under the headline “What’s in a Name?” carries the following item in an editorial column:

I see that the Senator sponsoring a bill in the New York State Legislature to make St. Patrick’s Day a legal holiday is called Wojtkowiak, a name relatively uncommon in Tipperary.

And only last month the junior bagpipe championships of Glasgow were won by representatives of the local Jewish Lads’ Brigade.

I remember that some years ago when Mr. Matheson Lang was scoring a great success in “The Wandering Jew” it was recalled that he was a cousin of the Primate, Dr. Lang.

Whereupon someone wrote in bewilderment to the Press expressing astonishment that the Archbishop of Canterbury should be a Jew.

FRENCH ANTI-SEMITISM TRACED TO MARQUIS

The New English Weekly, of London, commenting on the anti-Semitic campaign now being eonducted in France by the French Royalists, attributes its origin to Marquis de la Tour du Pin. The paper writes:

Tour du Pin is no end of great shakes among French Royalists. If you consider him a registering gelatine, he indubitably, from 1882 till 1907, registered ideas which have gone into effect. If he didn’t foresee he at least fore-argued the corporate state. He also blamed a lot of things on the Jews and in so doing foreshadowed the Nazis.

He then without documents or much detail, blames the Jews for “Aryan” inability to think clearly. This runs back into retrospect, the Templars, etc. He blames the Jews equally for Calvin and for Voltaire. Taking it impartially as a transpontine Confucian we fail to see why the Jews should commit race suicide merely because “Aryans” can’t think clearly. And we still more emphatically fail to see why any Jew should be expected to think so.

CHURCH PAPER SCORES TREATMENT OF JEWS

The Church of Ireland Gazette, published in Dublin, commenting on the Jewish situation, states:

A review of the treatment meted out by Christians to Jews all down the centuries would suggest that, if the purpose of Christianity is to help the Jewish people to domination, that purpose has been very cleverly concealed. No passion is more blinding than hatred—the perversion of true sentiment—so it is not surprising that a silly old man like Gen. Ludendorff, who has given way to anti-Semitism, should say such things The truth which really comes to light, however, from this patriotic outburst is that all the nations will be compelled sooner or later to choose between Christ and economic nationalism. Any movement which tends to restrict the bonds of brotherhood is a movement away from Christ.

FLEISCHAUER SELLS ‘PROTOCOLS’ VOLUMES

The New York Herald Tribano, reporting on the “Protocols” trial in Berne, says:

Responsible for Jewish pogroms in Russia before the World War, the “Protocols,” which purport to be a Jewish plan for world domination, was proved by “The Times,” of London, as long ago as 1921, to be a forgery by Sergius Nilus, Czarist agent, who plagiarized a French political satire published in 1865 (Dialogues in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu,” by Maurice Joly). There are liying “Aryans,” moreover, who have heard Nilus himself admit that the “Protocols” were forgeries.

Nevertheless, the “Protocols” were the basis of impassioned oratory by Ulrich Fleischhauer, of Erfurt, Germany, the first ornament of Nazi anti-Semitism if Julius Streicher, editor of the Nuremberg weekly “Der Sturmer, is excepted. Fleischhauer, former army colonel, is also, ironically, the owner of “U Bodung Editions,” which publishes the “Protocols,” many pamphlets and a four-volume dictionary of Jewish atrocities which can be sold only to members of the National Socialist Party.