The Washington times., 1938-11-23


About the time Prime Minister Neville Cham
berlain of Great Britain giving the House of Com
mons list of places in the British Empire where he
thought GermanJewish refugees might be settled.
- Chamberlain mentioned British Guiana on South Amer
icas northeast coast and the African colonies of Tan
ganyika, Northern Rhodesia Kenya and Nyasaland
Tanganyika is the old pre-war German East Africa.
To finance the Chamberlain plan, the British govern
ment estimates about S1OOOOOOOO would be needed and
hopes it could be raised by popular subscription in var
Gus countries, including
That something generous and adequate must be done
for the victims of Hitlers anti-Semtism believe all
of us except chronic Jew haters and Jew baters
agreed. The main question is
Better use how to do it.
n4 One thing which lot of earnest
OO"'o "O' people appear to overlook is the fact
that any and all plans for helping the German Jews are
subject to Hter consent which hasn't been torthcom-
ing yet The German press, indeed reacted to Cham
berains Tanganyika suggestion by issuing warnings
that Britain had better not poute any former German
colonies with Jewish settlers; and the German secret
police reacted by arresting more Jews.
Talk flared up in Berlin about withdrawing the Ger
man Ambassador to Great Britain Apparently the only
thing that prevented that for the time being the fact
that Chamberlain is to confer in Paris with Premier
Daader and the Hitler government decided to wait and
what happens then.
All of which illustrates, think, the imperative
need of tact the part of statesmen and nations at
tempting to the German Jews from the Naz mobs
Tact to US, has been conspicuousy missing in
most of the negotiations to date.
President Roosevelts outright condemnation of the po
groms eloquent and sincere,
FTOLeStS ln0t but it did not halt the pogroms.
uuva,,,4 Wo~L.oJ His summoning home of Am
y bassador Wilson dramatic;
but neither did stop the pogroms 1t only moved Hitler
to call his ambassador home. Even Chamberlain, dipo-
matte though he s to have muffed ball in
tioning Tanganyika as one possible refugee haven
While it makes lot of people feel big and fearless to
pass resolutions calling Hitler Names it only increases
very Ouchy Hitler the point of deciding simply reject
all refugee plans and keep all the remaining German Jews
in Germany that his murder them by
degrees.
1t looks nothing but tactfu and careful and polite
negotiations with Hitler the part of the nations inter-
ested the German-Jewish minority
of liberation might wreck Hitler, but Hitler
would annihate the German Jews first Hitler probably
knows we'll anybody else that the democraces and
Russia if they should agree such war; are not
now in position to mass enough military strength for
quick crushing and nfalble breakdown on Germany.
The whole problem is grevous and pressing one
loaded with trouble 1t will take the highest and most
prudent craftsmanship to solve it, if it be solved at ALL
We hope the governments of the countries interested
in solving it will do nothing that might lead to another
World War, and will try to keep it from becoming too
emotional an issue among their peoples
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