Chief Rabbi Places Hope in Rome Pact

schools and cultural and philanthropic centers will continue to remain the centers of active Jewish life.”

The second manifesto, issued by the Board of the Jewish Community in Saarbruecken, incorporates a statement by the central Jewish organizations of Germany which express the viewpoint that the “Aryan paragraph” which has been introduced in Germany may not be introduced in the Saar.

“We are convinced,” the statement of the German Jewish organizations says, “that the German government will do everything in the spirit of the agreement reached between France and Germany in Rome and will assure the protection promised under this agreement also to the Jewish section of the population of the Saar.

HOPE FOR RIGHTS

“We are certain that the government, complying with this agreement, will not enforce any ‘Aryan’ legislation in the Saar during the year provided for by the agreement. We also hope that no ‘Aryan’ legislation will be introduced by the German government in the Saar after the expiration of this period. We hope that Saar Jewry, like German Jewry, which has been rooted for centuries in the German soil, will not lose its important spiritual members and material through emigration.”

Chief Rabbi Dr. Rothschild, in his interview with the press, stated that Saar Jewry is now preparing for its hard fate and places its entire hope on the Rome agreement.

“We must prepare for welfare work to cope with the distress which will undoubtedly arise when large numbers of Jews in the Saar who are still employed will one day be deprived of their livelihood. Those who can, will emigrate.

“But we do not know where many of the five thousand Jews of the Saar will eventually find themselves. We hope that the League of Nations Committee working here now will contribute largely toward the clearing up of the situation.”