TREATMENT OF JEWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1938, Page 7

TREATMENT OF JEWS

UNITED STATES PROTESTS TO GERMANV INVASION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS. COMMERCIAL TREATY VIOLATED. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. WASHINGTON, May 11. The United States has presented a Note to Germany emphatically protesting against the Jewish property decrei as a violation of the American-German commercial treaty of 1923, under which nationals were assured the right to hold property in each other’s country irrespective of race or creed. The Note concludes with a request for an early reply giving assurances that the measure will not be applied to American citizens.

As controller of the four-year plan Marshal Goering recently issued a decree for the immediate compulsory registration of all property owned at home and abroad by German Jews and of property owned in Germany by foreign Jews. This is believed to be the first step towards the expropriation of almost all Jewish-owned property throughout Germany. No Jew in future may be a party to the purchase or lease of any property or business without the consent of the German authorities.

The official explanation of the new measures is that it is to enable the economic reconstruction of Austria, which it is declared has been hindered by Jewish financial control.

Jews throughout Germany are pan-ic-stricken, fearing the confiscation of much of their wealth. The law will not apply to Jews who own less than £4OO.