The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-08
Liberal Viewpoint
by DIR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

ME outstanding bit Of folly in the program
4 of Chancellor Hitler to date has been his
savage repression Of the Jews Many of his
| other policies, such as his demand for the re-
vision of the Treaty of Versailles and his attack
upon the old vested economic interests in Ger
many, have been conmendable Other debata-
bic items in his program certainly are no worse
| than policies which are being pursued in other
countries.
Hence, much of the Hitler propaganda in
this country centerS around an apology for the
anti-Semitic crusades carried on by the Nazi
In this, by all odds the most usual and popular
allegation is that the Jew nd all but gained
control over Gentle Germany
This statement has been made by no less dis
tingu1shed German than former Chancellor
Won Papen. The latter alleged that people liv-
ing in England could in no way appreciate the
menace of Jewish dominion as it existed in
Germany.
Such an assertion is somewhat humorous
when one reflects that Germany never had a
Jewish chancellor and that there has been only
one Jewish cabinet minister in Germany in the
last eleven years.
IN Disrael, England had Jewish prime min
lister many years ago. When the World war
broke out Sir Edgar Spyer was a member of the
privy council and the chief financial adviser of
the British government More recently Lord
Reading has been governor general of India.
lord chancellor and secretary for foreign affairs
In an article in Opinion, the distinguished
European correspondent, Robert Dell, puts the
following questions up to those who maintain
the thesis that the Jews all but dominated Ger
many before March, 1888:
q. Has there since 1918 or before 1914 ever
been single German ambassador or diplomatic
minister or a single officer in the German army
or navy, who was Jew?
% Has there been more than one Jew in the
cabinet of the reich since Rathenau was assas-
sinated eleven years ago? CWhat about the cab
inets of the states?
g. Has there ever been a single head of a
province, or of an administrative district, or
even OF country who was Jew?
a Have there been since 1919 more than
half dozen Jews in the non-Socialist parties or
groups in the reichstag, which have always
formed the majority of the reichstag?
o. Has there been single Jew among the
trade union leaders?
IS. Did the fact that about one-third of the
lawyers were "non-Aryan" and that many ply
sicians and surgeons were Jews bring Germany
under the control of the Jews and if So why
was she not under their control before the war
when those conditions were the same?"
THE bankruptcy Of the Nal contention that
Il they moved against the Jews to prevent
them from perfecting their control over Ger
many can be further illustrated by reference to
the attitude Of the Hitler government toward
the Jewish bankers.
Banking was the one field in which the Jews
did have something approaching ascendency, In
spite OF this however the Hitler government
has left the Jewish bankers almost entirely I'M
molested. They have only been compelled to
dismiss their Jewish employees.
1t is only in the profeSSionS-science medi-
cine literature and art-that the Jews have dis
tinguished themselves out of all proportion to
their numerical percentage in the German popu-
lation This certainly did not give the Jews con-
troll over German society or government.
Indeed, Jewish pre-eminence in the pro-
LESSONS has been due in large part to the fact
that they were restricted severely in their
capacity to make Roadway in military and gov
arnmental circles. In short, Jewish professional
distinction has been mainly a compensatory
product Of anti-Semitian in the days before
Hitler.