Washington, Nov. 17.
it was asserted at the White House yesterday that President Roosevelt's statement regarding Germany's treatment of her minorities applied to Catholics as well as Jews.
Mr. Stephen Early, the President's press secretary, said that the President's statement had been treated by the press as a rather unusual and firm statement regarding Jews only, but it had referred to the Catholic situation also.
Not prudence, but audacity, was now required to deal with the refugee problem, according to the Earl of Selborne, in a speech at the Church Assembly yesterday, when the situations of refugee Jewish Christians from Germany was discussed.
Lord Selborne exclaimed that] "surely all the Governments and Parliaments in the British Empire should do the great thing of suspending immigration laws and also the protracted paraphernalia of Government passports and visas in Berlin and Vienna."
It they waited for an inter-Governmental plan to be framed, the Jews would all be dead before it was put into operation, he declared.
The Archbishops of Canterbury and of York stressed the magnitude of the problem. The Archbishop of Canterbury hoped that whatever policy was adopted in Palestine, there would be some means of ensuring for the Jews a spot where they were not regarded us outcasts and aliens.
Mr, Early added that the statement was intended to cover ihe stoning of Cardinal Innitzer's house in Vienna, and measures against the Catholics who, he declared, had been maltreated in other parts of Germany—Reuter.
Jews to Guard Reich Consulate New York, Nov. 17.
Mr. Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York, has given instructions that a police squad should be assigned to guard the German Consulate and that it should be composed entirely of Jews commanded by Captain Finkel-stein, The same squad will guard the delegation of prominent Nazis which is shortly arriving in New York—Reuter,
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