Furor Teutonicus The outrages committed against the Jews in Berlin
during the last week will dishonour Germany for ever. After four years of Nazi rule her people, once civilised, have sunk to a level of barbarism that is a disgrace to Europe. It is fantastic to remember that the very men responsible for the outrages are those who strain their lungs and their vocabularies with denunciations of the tolerant treatment accorded to the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia. Even worse than the sudden explosions of violence is the slow death by starvation to which the Jews are condemned. The recent decrees on Jewish business destroy their last chance of making a living. They are now excluded from the Stock Exchange ; in Berlin hundreds were arrested at the week-end ; boo have been taken in the last week from Vienna to the camp at Dachau. The entire responsibility for the excesses committed rests on the German Government ; they are probably designed to impress on other countries the necessity of drawing up some effective plan of Jewish emigration at the conference at Evian in July, convened by President Roosevelt. The reminder was not necessary. Four years of Nazi rule have given the world sufficient examples of Teutonic brutality. It is the duty of every Christian country to contribute to the success of the Evian conference to the full extent of its means.
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