World Press Digest

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The London Star, writing on prominent Jews, devotes a special article by George Lansbury to the well known Jew, the late Joseph Fels. Mr. Lansbury writes:

Joseph Fels was a friend of Henry George, and had spent big sums of money helping to spread the Single Tax gospel, but he was a practical-minded business man, and wanted to do something concrete, so in America he started the Vacant Land Cultivation Society, the object of which was to take waste land in towns and allow the unemployed to turn these wastes into vegetables, fruit and potato plots.

So successful was he that he came to London, and, hearing that I also had determined to try to get people on the land, he called me up on the telephone and we met. A friendship as strong and loyal as that between Jonathan and David ensued, and lasted till his death. It will live in my memory till I join the majority with him.

This little man travelled Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark, interviewing kings, princes, premiers, cabinet ministers, bishops and the clergy, pouring out his money like water, lending it in large and small sums to governments and local authorities, free of interest for stated periods, so that land could be bought or hired for the use of the unemployed.

URGES CONTINUATION OF NANSEN OFFICE

The Yorkshire Observer, an English daily, in an editorial on the importance of the Nansen Office, says:

The Hitler purge of Social Democrats and Jews has driven out 80,000 from Germany, and Paris has also been at least a temporary asylum for many of these. They are not at present under any Nansen passport, and may not all have lost their German passports. But their plight is pitiful. The great crime here is that the victims are among the advanced and industrious who wished to be loyal German citizens.

This is, then, no time for thinking of closing down the Nansen Office. The new conditions, as complicated by racialism, are in some respects worse than at any stage since the war. It is already feared that if, as the result of Marshal Pilsudski’s death, there is a “Nazification” of Polish administration, the three and a half million Jews in that country may provide a fresh flood of wandering refugees.

REVIEWS CAREER OF NEVILLE LASKI

The Manchester Guardian comments as follows on the appointment of Neville Laski as Recorder of Burnley:

Mr. Neville Laski is the son of Mr. Nathan Laski, head of the Jewish community in Manchester, and he was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, Clifton College, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He graduated in 1912, also taking the Beit Prize, and was called to the Bar in 1914.

Mr. Laski served throughout the war in Gallipoli, Sinai, and France, with the 6th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, and left the army with the rank of captain. He returned to practise on the Northern Circuit early in 1919. In 1930, when 38 years of age, he took “silk,” and is one of the few barristers who have become K.C.s

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