News of the Week T HE relation between the boycott of
the Jews in Ger- many and foreign comment on events in Germany is a matter of conjecture. Since the Nazi Party has been violently anti-Semite for years the allegation that last week's boycott was the result of foreign reports of " atroci- ties " in Germany carries little conviction. It would in all likelihood have been declared anyhow, and it is just as probable that the decision not to renew the boycott this week was the result of the storm of protest last Saturday's proceedings raised throughout the world. That the boy- cott was carried out with only negligible damage to person and property is satisfactory. even though that result was due largely to the efficiency of the intimidation. But it would be a profound mistake to suppose that if the boy- cott is not renewed that ends the matter. Employers have been ordered to discharge their Jewish employees, Jewish judges have been removed from the Courts, every Jewish doctor and lawyer and dentist, as well as every Jewish shopkeeper, remains a marked man, with whom the ordinary non-Jewish citizen will have dealings at his peril. The ban has fallen on great artists like Bruno Walter. and Max Reinhardt, as well as on Dr. Einstein, whose bank . balance has been sequestered. It is even forbidden to Jews who have not left Germany already to cross the frontier, and if they did they could not take enough money with them to support them.
