JEWISH REFUGEES

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 7

JEWISH REFUGEES

GERMANY’S PROPOSALS CONTROLLED EMIGRATION CREATION OF TRUST FUND (United Prats Attn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 16 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, says the Times. The memorandum which Mr George Rublee, retiring chairman of the Intergovernmental 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 trustee bf which would be a foreign banker. Emigrants would be assisted from the trust fund, would be permited to take some capital goods, and would receive training In agriculture and handicrafts in Ger- ! many. Admitting that Jewish businesses have been taken over at a fraction of their value, Field Marshal Goering ha> decreed that the purchasers will be taxed 70 per cent, of the difference between the purchase price and the real value, thus grabbing the profits for i the State.