A Lull in Germany Private violence against the Jews in
Germany appears to have ceased, and Herr Buerckel, the Nazi Commissioner for Austria, has declared with characteristic pungency on behalf of Field-Marshal Goering that anyone found smashing or looting will be placed against a wall. The warning is due not to solicitude for Jewish property-owners, but to the fact that the Government proposes to confiscate all such property and prefers to acquire it intact. Details of the procedure by which the levy of ‘84,000,000 on the Jews of Germany is to be exacted have not yet been disclosed, nor is it clear whether Jews will be allowed to emigrate, with or without some part of their property. The Powers represented at the Evian Conference are seeking information on that point. The outbreak has had two results, a violent rejoinder in the German Press to British strictures, and an almost universal accord in this country and France on the impossibility of handing over colonial populations to a Government whose treatment of people of alien race is what it has been shown to be this week. The statements by both the British and French Governments that no transfer of colonial territory is in contemplation are justified so far as they go, but they must not be interpreted either here or in Germany as meaning that there can be no change at all in the existing adminis- tration of African territories. The permanent exclusion of Germany from the Continent of Africa is not practicable, but her participation must be on the basis of association in trusteeship, on lines still to be worked out. * *
