The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-21
CAUTION THE FIRST REQUISITE IN
DEALING WITH GERMANY
(By BRUCE. CATTOM

1t probably would be just as we'll for the
American government to be extremely eau
tious about this much-talked-of plan Tor
Anglo-American cooperation to help set
tie the Jewish problem in Germany.
With the avowed aims of this scheme
to find some means of getting the Jews out
of Germany and settling them in place
where they can try to put their shattered
lives together - every American will have
the greatest sympathy Certainly some
thing needs to be done, and if the Ameri-
can government can help things along it
ought to do so.
But we need to know precisely what is
contemplated by all parties to such an
agreement before we commit ourselves.
First of all, it is pretty evident that the
Hitler government would like to use its
persecution of the Jews as a club to force
concessions from other nations. Says the
newspaper Das Schwartz Korps, official
organ of the crack S. S. guard:
1--WE shall use Jewish hostages system
atically, no matter how shocking some peo-
pie may find it."
That is fairly plain warning, not UNI
like the message which a successful kid
{ naper might send to the victims relatives.
Germany wants a number of things from
the outside worlG-trade agreements, col
OnieS, sitting of criticism, and so on-and
it is quite in the cards for the government
at Berlin to refuse to take part in any pro-
gram for the relief of Germany's Jews I'M
less some of these things are granted.
And while it is important that the luck
less victims of Hitler's savagery be extract
ed from their predicament as quickly as
possible, it would be bad indeed if Hitler
should discover that he could get conces-
sions from the outer world simply by tight
ening the thumb screws on the Jews. Once
that precedent was set there would be no
end to prosecutions. The civilized nations
would simply be submitting to blackmail
and the lot of such Jews as could not i'm
mediately be brought out of Germany
would become worse than ever.
In the second place, it might be reriem,
, bered that the record of the Chamberlain
. government in dealing with Hitler is hard
2 ly such as to inspire confidence. .
The Chamberlain government interveneo
in the Ethiopian tangle-and Mussolini got
exactly what he originally demanded i
interviewed in Spain-and the Rome-Berlir
axis ran the smoother. It interviewed in the
Czech crisis-and Hitler got everything he
had asked for.
= If the American government is to act
Jointly with this Chamberlain government
, in seeking relief for the Jews, it ought tc
let London know that it is interested solely
in helping the victims of a towering injus.
tice and not in placating dictator. And
thereafter it ought to keep its eyes wide
open. -
Something has to be done to help the
people against whom this blow from the
dark ages has BEEN launched, and if Amer
lea can help in the doing of it America un
doubtedly will want to do so. But befor,
any program is drawn up great deal O
caution needs to be used.
A skillful backielder on college foot
ball team says he is earning his wa
through school by weaving.
The naming of Isnet Inonu as dictate
of Turkey reminds a housewife it's time
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