A peculiarly sinister aspect of racial and political persecu- tion
by the totalitarian States is revealed by two cases which have been brought to my notice quite independently this week. Both happen to concern people of high academic qualifications. In the first case a university lecturer and former officer who fought through the War and was a Social Democrat in politics left Germany a year or two ago because he found the regime intolerable and felt himself in danger. He is not, I believe, a Jew. He settled in Bulgaria and began to earn a living by teaching. The German Legation made representations to the Government and the man was expelled. He moved into Yugoslavia; precisely the same process was repeated. He is now in Rumania, where more independence prevails, and hopes to be left in peace and get enough teach- ing to keep him alive. The other case concerns a non- Aryan Viennese who was doing public work of undoubted importance in Albania. Here Italy insisted on expulsion.
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