Jewish Migration Two events in the last week have emphasised
the increasingly difficult position of the Jews in the modem world. In Poland the Medical Association announced that in future no Jews will be allowed to become doctors, and the Lawyers' Association that it intended to limit the number of Jewish lawyers to ro% of the profession ; the Jews mean to appeal to the Government against the Medical Association's decision, as unconstitutional, but it seems unlikely that they will obtain satisfaction as the Government has pursued precisely the same policy by excluding Jews from the one political party which is now permitted to exist. In Palestine, a day later, it was announced that 770 immigrants, one-fifteenth of the number demanded by the Jewish agency, would be allowed for the period April-June. No doubt the political tension in Palestine may justify such strict limitation of immigration ; but the present schedules are clearly not sufficient to provide for the oppressed and dispossessed Jews of Europe. The Soviet Union indeed provides an asylum ; but it seems that if there is to be any solution of the problem without provoking further revolt in Palestine, other centres of immigration must be developed, perhaps in South America, where the skill and ability of the Jews might find proper openings. It would be a still better solution to allow them to live unpersecuted in Europe.
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