Evening star., 1933-05-30
REICH WON'T STAND|
FOR JEWISH PROBE
League Warned to Keep
Hands OFF of Internal
German Question.
81 the Associated Press.

sy the Associated Press.
GENEVA. May 30.-Germany, in
diplomatic phraseology, told the League
Of Nations Council today TO keep its
hands off the question of Germany's
treatment of the Jews
The Council, however, without Ger
many's vote, proceeded to submit the
iuridical aspects of the problem to
jurists, with the understanding that
there will be a complete airing Of the
entire matter later.
This action followed Germanys re-
fusal to accept Council report on the
treatment of Jews in German Upper
Silesia.
Friedrich Won Kellar, the German
delegate, declared Franz Bernheim, a
German Jew residing in Upper Silesis,
on whose recent statement the report
was based is not of SileSian origin and
has no right TO raise the question CT the
application of German laws in Silesia
nor to speak for the population.
Notification of Laws Asked.
On May 20 the League decided to
give urgent treatment" to Bernheim's
petition complaining that Germanys
treatment Of the Jews violates the Ger
man-Polish convention guaranteeing
protection to the life and liberty Of ali
inhabitants.
The Councils report said the laws in
question involve restrictions in various
forms which would apply only to per-
sons belonging to the Jewish popula-
ton and in violation of the Polish-Ger-
man convention.
Bernheim asked the Council to de-
clare null and void all discriminatory
laws against the Jews, that Jews rights
be returned and that the Jews receive
compensation.
The report recalled that Won Keller
In a previous session indicated that If
there we're any infringements on the
convention, they must be regarded as
errors of subo-oinates.
He said: This statement implies that
Germany will take steps to insure that
general laws shall not be applied in
Upper Silesia as far as they are COM
patible with the convention and that
Germany will reinstate persons of the
minority who lost their positions"
Submitted to Jurists.
Sean Lester of the Irish Free State,
president of the League Council, pro-
posed that committee of three jurists
decide whether Bernheim belongs to the
Jewish minority and whether he has
the right to submit the petition.
The German delegate previously as
serted that "the internal affairs of
Germany cannot be a subject of dis
cussion at Geneva" Today he opposed
submitting the question to jurists and
said he would abstain from voting.
One by one nearly every member OF
the Council took a stand against Ger
many's position and insisted that the
League of Nations must consider the
affair at the earliest possible moment.
of France described the problem as
grave, and asserted that the League
cannot be disinterested in race whose
members live in all parts of the world
He recalled that France after the
French Revolution was the first country
to "emancipate" the Jews and at the
Congress OF Berlin in 1878, which
granted recognition to new countries
like Bulgaria and Serbia, France in
sisted almost simultaneously on recog-
milton of the rights of Jews.
support MlnOrltlcS.
Count Raczynski of Poland took
fling at the Hitler government when
he said that Germany had abandoned
the attitude of former German govern
ments which always stood for the pro-
lection of minorities.
Germany has always posed as the
champion Of their rights" he said. I'VE
have a moral right to appeal to Ger
many to accord equal treatment to all
Jews throughout Germany"
Delegates Zulueta of Spain, Lange of
Norway, Matos of Guatemala and
Osusky of Czechoslovakia approved the
appointment of the committee of juriSts
suggested by Lester. They emphasized
that minorities must be ScrupulouSly
protected
Herr Won Keller. in reply, said many
complaints had reached the League in
the past that minorities IN other coun-
tries were mistreated.
IF members of the Council had been
as eloquent then as today" he asserted,
''the League would be in a better posi-
ton to protect minorities."
Local German Question.
Germany, Won Keller continued,
gives the fullest rights to minorities.
'I want to say clearly that the discus
sions Of the Council should be limited
to the situation in Silesia," he main
tained.
In conclusion, he declared he refused
to consider the question of the Jews
in the rest OF Germany and opposed the
designation Of the jurists because the
matter was a local German question.
Except for the German vote, the
Council unanimously decided to appoint
the jurists after Mr.. Lester declared it
"a sacred duty"