Evening star., 1933-11-26
BY EMIL LENGYEL.

BY EMIL LENGYEL
TROM the Etoile to the Concorde
u the crowd rolls with a slow
murmur. In the early afternoon
i hours. when the rest Of Paris
is at work, the German language
seems to hold sway on the Champs
Elysees. Has the dream of the Mach
Paris" drive become reality? How
has the invasion of the main Partisan
| thoroughfare taken place? At nearly
every street corner German papers are
offered for sale: Der Neue VorwaertS,
Das Neue Tagebuch, Die Neue Welt
buehne. The newsboys look more like
college professors; their manners be-
tray education and their features in
telligence. If one looks at the crowd
carefully one notices a few heads ban
daged, a few arms in sings, few eyes
blackened.
On the terraces of the cafes it is
again the German language that strikes
the ear. Listen to what they are say
ing-every one, 1t seems, wants to found
new motion picture concern. a Ger
man-language newspaper, a department
gone mad? No but Germany has.
The Champs Elysees is the great clear
ing house of German refugees. where
they assemble to get drunk on bold
dreams before they are lost in the great
city or are scattered all over the earth.
Groups Include NotabIes.
On the Champs Elysees the eternal
Dreamer, the wandering Jew and the
harmless plotter keep their rendezvous.
At cafe near the Rond PONIES des
Champs Elysees on certain afternoon
dozen men whose names are history.
They are shadow cabinet of former
German high officials, ministers and
secretaries of state. In small cafe of
the Latin Quarter on the left bank of
the Seine few mortals can glimpse an
assemblage of the immortals of Ger
man literature. They too have fallen
under the wheels Of the Nazi jueger-
naut.
Not only France is thus invaded by
those who have fed the Nad terror:
other nations also have had to deal with
.he economic, financial and social prob
lens created by their presence. Re-
Gently the League Of Nations decided
that the situation would have to be met
py concerted international action and
formed an organization, on which both
members and non-members of the
League Will be represented, to aid the
The interest of the United States in
the matter was demonstrated by the
appointment Of an American, James G..
Mcdonald, chairman Of the Foreign
Policy Association, as high commits
sloner for the emigres. and by the re-
cent announcement of Secretary of
State Hull that America would accept
representation on the governing body
supporting the high commissioner. Al
though both commissioner and govern
ing body are appoined by the League,
they will be independent of Geneva
once they are organized and their work
Is under way.
All Glasses Represented.
Who are these German refugees?
How many Of them have been set
adrift? All social classes. political views
and religious beliefs are represented
among the enigrants. In their night
asylums at Paris and elsewhere where
the German Communist rubs shoulders
with the Conservative. the Catholic
fratern1zes with the Jew. World-famous
genilses, winners of Nobel prizes, &C
company men whose disappearance
would pass unnoticed. The German
emigration has, however, one character
stlc trait-it contains more world fig
ures, more ingenuity and more genuine
greatness than any other group of emf
grants in recent history. They occupy
the peak of civilization" an English
newspaper man wrote.
The list of hundreds Of refugees is
the honor list Of Germany. With the
exception of Gerhardt Hauptmann-
who stands aside from the Nazi move
ment-nearly all the great authors Of
Germany are In exile. They are the
men who have made twentieth century
Germany literature the greatest on the
Continent. In a village on the Cote
Nobel prize. recognized by many as
probably the most creatively ingenious
author Of the age; his brother, Heinrich
Mann, a man Of boldly advanced views
and courageous fighter in political
literature. and Klaus Mann, the son Of
Thomas, have pitched their tents. Here
also live and work Lion Feuchtwanger,
the author Of many best sellers, and
Arnold Zweig, whose fame as author Of
THE Case of Sergeant Grischa" is well
anchored.
Paris has offered refuge to Joseph
Roth, author of the brilliant "Radetzky
March; to Ann Seghers, winner Of the
Kleist prize; Arthur HoIitscher, the au-
tnOr OF some 4U Volumes, VINO Is re-
duced to poverty In his old age; Egon
Erwin Kisch, q caustic critic of the
shortcomings Of contemporary civiliza-
tiop, and many others. Among the
members of the German brain trust in
Paris special mention IS due to George
Bernhardt, known to the world as one
Of Germany's most profound publicists;
Alfred Kerr, the redoubtable critic. and
Rudolf Olden, the brilliant journalist.
Einstein on ist.
The loss of blood of German science
Is so great that one cannot even start
to list the names that gave glory to
the pre-Hitler Reich. Prof. Albert
Einstein, now in the United States, is
seldom mentioned in the NaN ntera-
ture without the remark: Still un-
hanged" It has been said that price
was placed on his head. The most
conspicuous self-exiled figures in the
artistic world are Bruno Walter. great
conductor, and Max Reinhardt, whose
theatrical genius Is recognized all over
the world.
AS a result of the German "Aryan"