The critical developments in Central Europe have inevitably diverted attention
to a large extent from such standing distresses as the relentless and unceasing persecution of the Jews in Germany. On that the last report of the Anglo- Jewish Association throws a sinister light. In the professions, it is stated, the purge is almost complete. Among dispensing chemists not a Jew remains. The few Jewish booksellers who survive can sell only Jewish books, and to Jewish cus- tomers. Towards the end of last year a new drive to eliminate Jews from the clothing and leather trades began. German Jews are now deprived of their passports, so that they can never visit their relatives abroad, or if they do leave Germany can never return to visit their relatives there. In Danzig an anti-Jewish boycott is in full swing. When on the expira- tion of the Polish-German Convention last year Germany regained full freedom and action in Upper Silesia, all the anti-Jewish measures operative in the rest of Germany were at once applied to that province. And the same, of course, is happening in Austria. A people that survived the barbarities of the Middle Ages will survive this—but at what a cost.
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