The Archive · 1935

SEGREGATION

Obviously the oficial German' spokesmen—leaving out of account extreme fanatics "Uke Herr Julius Streicher—are endeavouring to place the Government's Jewish policy on, some foundation of commonsense and reason. The task is difficult. The formal creation of separate cultural institutions for Jews may sound very plausible but its underlying principle that of racial discrimination heavily streaked with oppression. In a community in which the Jews have equal rights with the rest of its members, the tendency must be to Seek means of education on Jewish lines for Jewish children. But the German method definitely compels the Jews to assume a position of Soolal inferiority and, in fact, it optives them of certain privileges which accrue to German citizenship. At the moment the fanatical anti-

Semites have regained ground. It is true that at the recent notorious demonstration at Berlin, Herr Strelcher lacked support from "front line Naai_ leaders" whose absence from his platform was commented upon by foreign observers present. It ominous, however, to note that Herr Streicher ts playing a prominent part, the celebrations at Nuremberg. It tooks as if his old associations with the Fuehrer were too. strong for immediate relegation of his crazy hatred to its proper place of contemptuous obscurity.

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