THE HONGKong TelegraAPH, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1987.
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Elisabeth Schumann. A Immer Iciser wird mein Schlummer (Brahms).
MONDAY, JULY 26, 1037,
WARDING OFF A SLUMP
considerable part
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vided by the national re-arma- ment scheme, and there is a fear Nan Maryska, that, once that scheme comes to
fruition, a slump may set in.. Walter Glynne.The Government is clearly alive to this possibility, and, as Mr.
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A few weeks ago the British Government, responsible au thority under Mandate of the League of Nations, announced the quota of Jewish labour im- migrants authorised enter Palestine during the following four months.
to
Under this "labour schedule" 620 Jews all told can receive "certificates" in the permitting them to settle Jewish National Home. Of this num- ber 400 are allocated to Jewish re- fugees from Nazi Germany.
For the next five months, therefore, this doors of Palestine are closed by format deeree of the British Govern- ment to all but 220 of the remainder
of World Jewry.
The Palestine Government itself reserves 150 certificates, for emer gency Immigration, mainly
non- Jewish.
D
URING the past 10 years roughly 30,000
.Jews have settled in Palestine annually. In 1935, 02,000 en- tered the country, while last year, under conditions of riot, and ter rorism, 30,000 Jews were absorbed. The Jewish Agency, mindful of new factors, reduced its demands to 7,500 immigrants who could be absorbed in the Palestine labour market during the next four months: the Government's answer is 400 German and 220 other, Jews.
No aat more cynical could bo committed, no blow moro callous
ancestors.
of its
There are scattered throughout the world some 10 million Jews whose liturgy for 20 centuries since
the Romans drove them from Palestine has contained tinc prayer and hope for "next your in Jerusalem."
If only quarter of their number wished to convert that prayer into reality, the last Jew would, at the rate ordained by this British decrce. hope to enter the Promised Land in 1,750 years from now.
F
OR forty
the years Hebrews, driven from the Egyptian bondage by Pharaoh, wandered through the desert; to condemn the Jews to-day to n further 1,750 years of exile is an iniquity undreamt by
that
Hitler's Egyptian predecessor. Experts have estimated Palestine can
absorb at least 3,000,000 Jews, and Jewish authorl- tles are prepared to settle them at a minimum rate of 50,000 annually. In relation to the position of the Jewish people in Europe alone, the British Government's polley, if continued indefinitely would be a sentence of death to millions of Jews.
The case of Jewry in Nazi Ger- many is co well known as now to be accepted with complacency. I the not with indifference, by world.
Half a million Jews have, by the Nuremberg Laws, been legally sen- tenced to outlawry, deprived of State and citizenship rights. They live under the Iron ruthlessness of Hitlerism.
Incredible under 41
by A. L. Easterman
tims in Germany. The same sorry tale can be repented in Rumania, Hungary and other lands where Hitler's Fascist disciples, imbued with the same principles of race hatred, and armed with the weapons of murder, Hle in walt for and terrorise the Jewish minorities.
Alløgether some five million Jews' in Europe lle cnished. humillated, attacked and doomed to slow extinction- unless they can escape
Whither can they lee? The gates of every country have been barred and bolted for year against them by Immigration restriction laws. The dictatorships oppress them, the free countries are closed through economie necessity.
One country alone promised a hope of escape, the country to which Jews have been bound for centuries by unbroken historic and religious nasocki- tion, the country to which they have reuselessly hoped to return. This country too, Jewish Palestine, has now been all but closed by an Aliens Act directed against the Jews.
Jewish pioneer land-workers look out over the new country they are making.
tyranny. barred from normal trade and profcasion, barred from recreation ground and entertain- ment place, their children barred from the schools and their youth from the colleges. 500,000 people have been hounded into a Ghetto, where they are hardly permitted to live and which they are unable to leave.
Less known, hardly known at all. is the plight of the Jews of Poland. Here, three million men, women and children are, at this moment, llying under political disability and suffering an economile slavery nt least as terrible as the fate that has befallen the Jews of Germany. Rabid racial intolerance, curtall- ment of political rights, economic restrictions, daily attacks and the threat of large-scale pogroms, have reduced the great Jewish community to despair and the fear of slow extermination.
One of Poland's leading states- men recently declared that the only solution of the Polish-Jewish problem is that one million Jews must leave the country,
A
SIDE-LINE to the well- nigh unbelievable misery -of
the German and Polish Jews is the position in Silesia, where the Jewish minority is" protected" by a treaty between Germany and Poland.
Ten thousand Jewa awalt, terror-stricken, the advent of the Nazis, who have openly declared that they will visit upon these in- nocent people the full remorseless fury of the Aryan Laws that has averwhelmed Hitler's Jewish vic-
The Strain of Office Work
JOHNSTONE was on the carpet this one of our directors. He insists that Nervous Wrecks
time all right. Most of the office an example be made of the person
your work."
Most days the office windows were iraffe. Buses, trams, care-an in- a backare would
Often
ter is at present engaging the attention of all Government de- partments concerned. This is a wise precaution, for advance
the issues involved may result in measures to prevent any marked recession in industrial activity. Britain's economic Actually,
im- position has immensely proved during the past four years, there being a rapid and almost unbroken increase in national income. Indeed, during the past three years the rate of growth has been unprecedented. National income during that
no legs a bad noted his increasing number of responsible. We have since discover- period increased by
slip-ups and, being decent fellows, ed several smaller but no less dis-opened to all the hell of main-road $942 than
millions-had covered him up as much as post-concerting flaws in the handling of cessant clang, squeal, roar-all the
enught him the ble, but Gregson had
day long. figure which is made all
bending at last on a serious matter. And so Johnstone dropped out of have him on the edge of a scream. we re- more impressive when
Now he was in the manager's room things, and soon after they took him He had been a naturally healthy sort! of person when he entered the office. whole and the offee didn't like to think off to hospital to be treated as a nerve at first, keen on his job, anxious to the member that in
Bucered. Now he was an object to scrap-heap twenty-five years from 1865 to what would be the result of this pain-
be pitied-cast on the ful interview-if they raked up his 1890 the increase, expressed in record over the last few months.
twenty years before his time.
Some big employers have tackled present-day prices, was no more
Johnstone was taking it bravely,
That is an example of what is hap-the problem of avoidable noise, and than £960 millions. The con- but he quaked a little when the boss pening up and down the land to-day have been rewarded by better work, clusion has recently been drawn opened up. "Well, Johnstone, I am Nerves, nerves, nerves! Doctors say a more contented staff, and less time sorry to have to bring you here to the nation is becoming a collection of
nervous wrecks, and they lay the lost through illness. But these cases by an economist that there is
day on such a matter as this. We blame on modern civilisation on the are only isolated attempts to combat similar places which require quiet- no intrinsic reason why British used to think you had the makings of constant high-speed wear and tear of the trouble. Thousands of offices and ness to concentrate on their business industry should not be able to a really good man, but I am afraid our survival-of-the-fittest jungle of
are giving their employees all the For much of this stupid waste of opportunities to make inistakes. produce an output distinctly your work has deteriorated lately.
You made rather a costly mistake man-power employers are to blame.
There is no need to go to great ex- staffs greater that at present. But
over the Smithley Corporation ac- Not because they expect their
rectify matters. A little because pense to this may be accompanied by a count, and as you know, the head is to be super-efficient, but
they don't give them a fair chance to commonsense and an understanding bc. What caused Johnstone's lapse? of human frallies can work wonders. rise in the prices of manufac
The once called it nerves and left it The boss who works in a quiet, car- tured goods. So far as the cur- danger is that the decline in at that. They had not reached John-peted private office cannot appreciate stone's breaking point yet, but every the mental struggles of his employees, rent year is concerned, this investment may drag down com-stone was well started towards if he makes no attempt to discover the true conditions under which they increase in production is not sumption and result in a serious it.
work. Let him spend more of his time in the general office-bring in expected to involve more than a slump. The Government, of] about it, but he was sensitive that his work carnetimes and share the four per cent. increase in the course, will have it in its power way. It would probably sound silly same conditions. After his own quict nolaca door-banging nutsunce.ined by number of Industrial workers to make plans for public works the way, the worldpisnic solitude be will be even more affect- mean of various kinds and to take the outer office. It preyed on his which interrupt work than the stair employed. This would
mind so much that he could not con- themselves. that in the fourth quarter of other measures to stimulate in-centrate on figures, He was always
A quiet and tactful word here and keyed up walling for the next bang this year there should be about vestment and consumption. This and was always caught napping, so there may discover why Jones' doc- 450,000 more workers in employ-is the matter to which it is now that his heart gave a flutter each timeftor lius ordered him a few weeks' rest,
by happened, Day
day Hor why Miss Drown sometimes has ta ment than in the fourth quarter addressing itself, and it is nt went on, wearing down his resistance, ask the afternoon off.
He could have complained, but na-
below
CASC.
Noise Nuisance
business.
新
Jahnstone could have told
them
the movements und
This Injustice is inexcusable in face of Britain's obligations sanclioned by the world's States and imposed us a truat by the League of Nationh.
WENTY years ago the British Government Issued the Balfour De- claration to facilitate the estab
shment in Palestine of a National Ilome for Jewish people. That declaration was solemnly accepted by the League, which conferred on Britain a Mandate to carry it out. Every British: Government has en- dorsed and adopted both Declaration an Mandate.
In 1931, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, on ochalf of the Labour Cloverment, stated that the Government "recog. nises that the undertaking in tha Mandate is an undertaking to the Jewish people."
Before that, in 1923, Mr. Churchill as Colonial Secretary declared that the Jews were in Palestino "on right and not on sufferance."
By virtue of the British promise, by virtue of the International obligation of the Mandate, by virtue of the re- peated endorsements of successive Brilish Government, the Jewish people undertook the enonnous task of rebuilding their National Home In Palestine
1920 they found an arid, poverty. strleken, malarts-ridden land, a dere lict waste despoiled by centuries of Turkish misrule and neglect.
Since 1020, 350,000 Jews have gone to Palestine students, artisans, trades. men, scholars and professional men. who have entered the country in the teeth of incessant Goverment strictions.
N face of incredible hardship, they have built. flourishing agricultural settlements, clearing the malaria! swamps at the cost of hundreds of ives.
They have bullt great modern town, prosperous Industrial" enter- prises, hospitals, schools, and a Uni- versity in Jerusalem.
They have brought water to a parched countryside and electricity to a dark desert. They brought pras perity where there was impoverish- ment.
At the outbreak of last year's Arab- terrorism, the one country whilch. showed n Government Treasury sur, plus was Palestine.
Jewish Inunigration and enterprise have raised the standard of life of the Araba formerly impoverished by feudal landowners and town task. mastern Every inch of Jewish Innd: has had to be paid for-dearly.
To this miracle of achievement have been brought millions of money sub acribed by Die pennies of the poorest Jews as well as the pounds of the rich. backed by incalculable zeal, and im- measurable determination to create n new natiouni existence, with freedom from perennial intoleranco and op pression.
The Jews have created more then- this. Always friendly to Britain, they have created an invaluable British as- set in the Near East, in face of Fascist: ambitions and foreign encroachments in the Mediterranean.”
H
AIFA, the greatest oll port in the British Em- pire, the great airports-
of Gaza and Lydda have ande Palestine a vital link in British communications, Only Jewish enterpriso has made these possible; only by Jewish friend- ship can they be made secure.
Britain rewards the Jews with a pledge unfulfilled, an international ob- Bgation violated.
If the excuse for the closed door be Arab unrest, it is a concession to ter- rorism and violence.
If it bo economic needs, "absorp tive capacity." as it is called, the un interrupted growth of enterprise and its accompanying labour requirements belle it, for there is negligible unem. ployment in Palestine,
For the Jews Palestine is a life and death necessity; by denying them entry into their National Home the British Government is playing into the hands. of Hitler.
-To-day's Thought- THE desert shall refolce, and blossom like the rose,
-Isniah xxxv, 1.
Employers-why do you leave your of last year. The number of any rate reassuring to feel that body else seemed to notice it, so he ordinary thoughtfulness for the feel- Ings of others at home? Bring them employed may in the coming there is no intention of waiting and nothing but worried a lot.
Then there was Miss Farchum; she into the office to-morrow. if you worse. You can eliminate avoidable autumn drop to
the until a slump arrives before de was a nien little woman, he liked her, want the utmost return for the wagen noise without bankrupting the share- investigato 1,250,000 figure. Then it may clding on some definito line but that typewriter of hers tapped his you pay, give your employees a chance holders, but you must
brain to a numbness that left him to prove that it can be done without these matters yourself in an under- the action.
in a sweat.
driving them Inte hospitals, or even standing way, begin to rise again, and
of