JEWISH MIGRATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 February 1939, Page 5

JEWISH MIGRATION

MORE ABOUT GERMAN t PLANS., THE PROPOSED TRUST FUND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, February 16. “The Times” says that Germany’s proposals for facilitating Jewish emigration appear to allow for an exodus spread over five years—if homes can be found —in the hope' of making a controlled and orderly emigration. The memorandum of Mr Rublee, Director of the Inter-Governmental Refugee Committee, brought from Berlin, goes further than the previous assurances. Germany is prepared to create a trust fund financed by a 25 per cent levy on the money of the remaining German Jews. One of their trustees is to be a foreign banker. The emigrants would be assisted from the trust fund, be permitted to take some capital goods, and receive training in agriculture and handicrafts in Germany. GETTING MONEY MARSHAL GOERING’S GRAB. BERLIN. February 16. Admitting that Jewish businesses will be taken over at a fraction of their value. Field-Marshal Goering has decreed that the purchasers will be taxed 70 pel- cent of the difference between the purchase price and the real value, Ihus grabbing the profits for the State.