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Jewish Situation Becomes Major Problem For European NationstggdBy I)KWITT MACKENZIE(Associated Press Foreign Af-Jtfairs Writer)NEW YORK. Jan. 10.—This week is booked to produce further oppressive action in the fierce campaign just inaugurated against Rumania's million Jews by her now pro-Nazi. anti-Semitic premier, Oetavian Gnga.J This further assault on the un-j happy Jews of Europe aggravates a situation which has become a smajor problem and may be raised 21 at the next meeting of the council of the League of Nations at Geneva.Already Britain and France have gone to the extreme of virtually intervening in the internal affairs of Rumania by requesting her to respect the treaty of 1919, which Rumania signed, pledging protection for minorities. Newspapers in anti-Semitic Germany boiled with indignation at the action of Paris and London.U. S. Out Of It When Secretary of State Cordell Hull was asked by report-lers if the United States would e! emulate Britain and France, he replied in the negative.! Mr. Hull said America was not unmindful of the treatment of Rumanian minorities. Our country stands for religious freedom and the equal treatment of all religions and races. However, the United States isn’t in a position to take any action because of its policy of ndn-inlerventiun in I the affairs of other nations. , ^, The Jews have suffered terribly! | throughout their long history, but the present widespread oppression in numerous countries of Europe must be recorded as one of the most grcvious trials they have endured.More iiian Ilalf Put it in cold figures and you begin to see the lull import, it Is estimated that there are about 9,500,000 Jews in Europe. Some 5,000,000, or more than half of them, are suffering from anti-Semitism.Thousands are refugees, destitute and hungry and dependent on charity. To use the /anal* guage of Dr. Bernhard Kahn, a-.European director of the Aneri-tojean Jewish joint distribution ar committee, who has just returned from Europe:“Throughout Europe today ,ro there are some 25,000 refugee* tv from the anti-Jewish terror, the on greater part of them living in)fnitter-igi-*htnih■l-o-oftoliftede-56-heneed and In a position of demoralizing uncertainty.”A thousand years ago the^continued On Page Eightj
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Panama City, Florida, US
Mon, Jan 10, 1938
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