Says Attempts of Austria to Get Sympathy Must Be Defeated if Excesses Continue

Attempts to awaken sympathy for Austria abroad should certainly be defeated if Vienna University continues to permit the anti-Semitic incidents of the last two weeks to continue, declared Leonard Montefiore, president of the Anglo-Jewish association, at a meeting of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

Austria is the blackspot today, he stated. The foreign situation on the whole, Mr. Montefiore declared, has not changed since the last meeting of the Board in July, with the important difference that in July the Nazis in Germany expected to control a majority in the Reichstag and now their power is diminishing.

The economic situation is nowhere cheerful, he said. Premier Julius Goemboes’s recantation of anti-Semitism presents some hope for a betterment in the situation of the Jews in Hungary, he asserted.

He expressed the hope that Titelescu, as Roumanian Foreign Minister, would accord fair treatment to the minorities.

Mr. Montefiore announced in connection with the publication in Spain of the spurious Protocols of the Elders of Zion, that the Ica is co-operating with the Board of Deputies in the translation into Spanish of the late Lucien Wolf’s exposure of the Protocols.