Newspapers here continued today to devote considerable attention to the forthcoming visit to the United States of the three British-Jewish leaders, Sir Herbert Samuel, Viscount Bearsted and Simon Marks.
The Manchester Guardian reports that the trio, which is scheduled to leave for the United States January 15, has no definite scheme, its mission being exploratory in nature. The group, the Guardian states, will be away approximately one month, and it is understood that one of its proposals will include a general scheme for the emigration of younger Jews from Germany and also a plan to raise a large fund for establishment of training farms to prepare them for work in Palestine.
The mission of the trio, the Guardian declares, is not connected with any arrangements reported to have been made with the Nazi Government by Jewish leaders here. Making such arrangements, the paper points out, is the duty of the League of Nations.
The News-Chronicle in an editorial declares that the mission is the first result of James G. McDonald’s letter of resignation as League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany. The editorial points out that, however successful may be the funds campaign to aid the proposed mass emigration of Jews from Germany, it still will not remove the root of the trouble which Mr. McDonald described.
An editorial in the Daily Herald extends that paper’s best wishes to the forthcoming campaign and points out that Reichsfuehrer Hitler would receive a warmer welcome from the comity of nations if he were to abandon medieval persecution.
In a column-long article, the London Times declares that the German Jews are caught “like rats in a trap,” since they are unable to exist in the Reich and are unable to emigrate without capital. The article places little hope of amelioration in League intervention, declaring that the Nazi regime is unable control the radical elements. It points out further that the regime is probably willing to permit capital export in the form of German goods providing Germany receives a small return in foreign currency. But, the Times adds, it is not in the interests of other countries to encourage German experts at the cost of their own.
In Germany he almost lost his standing when he refused to meet a German boxer in protest against Nazism. The Polish Boxing Association ordered him to get into the ring with the Germany adversary.
He met the German champion, Sponnagel, at Poznan and trounced him. This entitled him to a place on the international boxing team which came to Chicago for the Chicago international Golden Glove Missing Page 4
Rotholz is a printer by vocation and the son of Warsaw orthodox Jews
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
