NOVEL IDEA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 5

NOVEL IDEA

FORMER GERMAN COLONIES FOR JEWS Gr w. R. HEARST’S PROPOSAL '■ “RIGHT AND RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE” By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. NEW YORK, November 20. The proposal to appoint ex-President Hoover head of the proposed international organization for resettling the Jews has been suggested to President Roosevelt. The appointment is favoured because of Mr Hoover’s relief work during the Great War and also because it would be evidence that the Roosevelt Administration’s attitude toward the situation in Germany is absolutely non-political and non-partisan. Mr W. R. Hearst, the newspaper magnate, in a nation-wide broadcast today, which suggested that his sympathy toward Germany was diminishing, proposed that the former German colonies in Africa be given to the Jews, and added: “Not only would the plan provide a magnificent heritage for the Jews, but there is right and retributive justice in not returning the German colonies to Nazi Germany.” Dismissing the question of Britain’s rights and responsibilities in Africa, Mr Hearst urged that the United States should “lead the way before the high feeling over the plight of the Jews culminates in international hostilities.” He urged that all the former German African colonies be mandated to England, France and the United States of America as a Jewish national home. He added that the Portguese African possessions and the Belgian Congo could subsequently be purchased. “Africa is rapidly becoming a second America and the Jews would create there one of the great nations of the earth,” Mr Hearst concluded.