A New Attack on Jews?
Signs of a new drive against Jews in Germany multiply. Dr. Goebbels, who must be distressed at possessing so few of the outward characteristics of the blonde Nordic himself, did his utmost to set the fires of racial hatred ablaze again on Saturday in a speech in which he conceded that a Jew is indeed a man in the sense in which a flea must be admitted to be an animal, and declared that Germany wanted the Jew no longer. This is deliberate incitement from the Minister for National Enlightenment and Propaganda. The provo- cative campaigns of Julius Streicher's foul organ, Der Stiirmer, continue unabated, and signs multiply of anti- Semite action, all of it intolerant and much of it brutal, in other fields. It is useless to pretend that this is a matter which concerns Germany alone. It concerns Germany's relations with Great Britain directly. Agree- ments like the naval accord are all to the good, but a spirit of mutual appreciation and sympathy between peoples is worth ten times more. And of that there can be none while the German Government not merely condones but instigates racial persecution through its official spokesmen. Such a policy leaves advocates of an Anglo-German understanding in this country powerless.
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