The Denver Jewish news., 1925-07-02
The Digest -.-Tobics
Before the Public
The Hopeless Situation of the Jewish Refugees-Dr.
Lucen VOLTS Visit to POland-New Restrictions on
immigration Antcipated-NIr Roseman Says Anti
Semitism in America Exaggerated.

In an editorial under the caption "A
Cold World the day Of juno u, says
"A few days ago one of the English
newspapers of New York printed a
dispatch under the characteristic head
line, Three Countries Call to Jews,
dealing with the old painful problem
of the Jewish refugees stranded in
the various ports of Western Europe,
Roumania, Poland, Latvia, etc, these
great catastrophe of the Jews who
We're forced to flee from Russia to
save their lives and remain homeless.
"They hoped to settle in America,
but this hope failed them. Then they
looked to Palestine, but the Palestin-
ian government following in the foot
steps Of the British domiinions and
crown colonies, is closing the doors to
the very people for whom England
received the Palestine Mandate. One
country after another turns n cold
shoulder to the Jews. It is a cold, an
ice-cold world
what should the unfortunate emf
grants do? Here they are for over
two years stranded and virtual pris-
oners in Riga, Roumania, Hamburg,
Southampton, and other cities, under
going untold suffering, and why?
What crime have they committed that
they should be so inhumanely treated? :?
"Latvia and Roumania want to
send them back to Russia, but they
cannot return to that country; Russia
will not admit them. And, even if
they were admitted, what can they do
there? Are not there enough suffer
-ers in Russia already. without Them
1t is n cold, completely closed world.
1--WE have right to turn to the
whole world and demand mercy and
humanity for the unfortunate people
and we are even more justified in de-
manding of the Palestine government
to open its doors for the few thou
sand stranded refugees. This influx
into Palestine may, for time, create
an unfavorable condition. 1t is quite
possible that the Chaluzim are a more
favorable element, but even if this
were so, compassion, humanity and
responsibility for Jewish life are su.
periOr to any other motives.
"The government of Palestine, the
land that is destined to become a
home for the Jews, has no right to
close its doors to the pogrom victims.
1t is the duty of the Zionists to solve
this problem. 1t is bad enough that
we are living in a cold world, but we
have no right to permit our own
world to become cold and freezing.
The Zionists must take up the work
Of transporting all emigrants to Pal
cstine. The British government must
be tried in this instance. 1t will have
to prove its intentions concerning
Palestine. Does Great Britain intend
to live up to its promise and make
Palestine a Jewish home, or is it GO
ing to turn this land into a strategic
British Crown Colony?"
Mr.. Lucien VOLTS Visit to Poland
"An ocean of ink was consumed in
writing vitriolic comment in the Jew
ish press of all lands on the visit OF
Mr.. Lucien Wolf to Warsaw" says
the Jewish Morning Journal in an ed.
itorial of June II. at seems that he
expected it. He realized that the mo,
tives Of his visit would be misinter.
preted and, before leaving England
he asked the London Jewish Chron
icle to announce that he is going t.
Poland merely as representative OF
the Anglo-Jewish Joint committee t.
make n private personal investigation
of Jewish conditions in Poland fol
the purpose of reporting back to tht
committee.
incidentally Mr.. Wolf was careful
enough to announce, before leaving
that he was not invited to Poland
that the Polish government did no
send for him, and that he was not in
vitcd to be the mediator between tn
Jews and Poles, and that lie had no
the least intention to interfere in tn,
internal affairs of that country. Blu
that he met later prominent Pole
and had lunch with a Minister and
lengthy conversation with other per
sons of high authority does not dis
prove his statements. He is one o
the greatest journalists of Britain
and it is not unusual for a man of hi
standing to meet celebrities in an
part of Europe that he visits.
at is an ethical question whethe
he should have repeated in Poland, a