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OREICN EVENTS
barest—Six Jews won seats in the
Parliament as a result of this week’s
nal elections, preliminary returns
v< but Jewish jubilation was marred
1C capture by Prof. Alexander Cuza’s
Semites of eight seats in the Lower
e. The overwhelming victory of
Peasant Party, which has numerous
Semitic leaders among its person-
j s also cause for anxiety among Ru-
. , n ian Jews. Many of the Peasant can-
,1 illates campaigned against King Carol,
candidates lost, by declaring that
M.mda Lupescu, the Jewish sweetheart
i King Carol dominated the affairs of
government.
Paris—Daniel Prenn, famous German
ic wish tennis star, who is held mainly
responsible for the victory of the Ger
man over the Italian Davis Cup team, is
. ne of the four Germans who will meet
the United States in the interzone final
ot the Davis Cup play. If the German
group wins, it will be matched against
I ranee for the cup.
Berlin—The seizure of the reins of
government in Prussia by the Federal
C abinet and the installation of Mayor
Bracht as Commissioner with dictatorial
powers has bewildered the Jews of Ger
many. It is understood in some quarters
that the unprecedented action was de
cided upon in order to cut the ground
from under the feet of the Hitlerites,
who had expected to sweep to power on
the July 31st elections with the slogan
that only Hitlerites could give Germany
a strong central government. But de
spite this alleged rebuff to the Nazis, the
action of the Von Papen government
bodes no particular good for Jews, lead
ers assert, because of the militaristic
character of the cabinet. The Junker
forces with which Von Papen is aligned
have been anti-Semitic in character. An
indication of what may be expected is
the expressed satisfaction of Alfred Hu-
genberg, Nationalist capitalist and leader,
with the seizure of Prussia by a dictator-
ship. Jewish leaders take the same po
sition now as they have held for the
past year, that they cannot comment pub
licly on the government until such time
■is definitely anti-Semitic action has been
taken.
Berlin—Greetings from all parts of
Europe came to Max Liebermann, distin
guished German-Jewish artist, on the oc-
''asion of his 85th birthday. Despite his
age, Liebermann has not only maintained
his critical interest in new art develop
ments but is still painting his own can
vasses.
Bucharest—Final returns on the na
tional elections for the Rumanian Parlia
ment show that only five Jews got seats
in die Lower House, instead of six as was
riginally reported. 'The incumbents are
* ‘-Drier, Landau, Fischer, Singer and Mor
ton.
Berlin—A warning intended for the
■ws of Poland but construed as apply*
tig to Jews in other countries is con-
;tned in the latest issue of the Israel-
sches Familienblatt, which deplores the
citation in Polish Jewish papers against
' menace of Hitlerism in Germany. The
• r nilienblatt declares that outside Jew-
lamtntation about the status of the
ss 'n Germany can only be harmful.
Ids that Polish Jewry ought to be the
Nt to bewail the fate of German Jews,
urges the Polish Jewish press to de-
e their columns instead to remedying
evils of the Jewish status in Poland.
HE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE *
Moscow The first play to deal with
the life of the Jews in the autonomous
territory of Bira Bidjan will be staged
m Moscow in the fall, it has been an
nounced. Victor Fink, the author, em
phasizes the possibilities of developing
the Siberian area as a place for Jewish
settlement.
Jerusalem—Mrs. Irma Lindheim, for
mer President of Hadassah, American
Women s Zionist Organization, and
widow of Norvin Lindheim, prominent
Zionist leader and lawyer, has announced
that she plans to adopt Palestine as her
place of permanent residence. Mrs.
Lindheim previously had a home on Long
Island, New York.
Berlin—Scores of professional Jews in
Berlin and other large centers of Ger
many are being converted to Christianity
every month, according to reports pre
sented at a conference of Prussian syna-
gogal institutions at Loonigsberg. The
speakers declared that the increasing
apostasy among the professional classes
is due to the desire to avoid the penalties
that must be suffered by Jews on ac
count of the mounting Hitlerite agitation.
An inference that anti-Semitism has
driven many Jews from Germany’s prin
cipal city was contained in the statistics
showing that Berlin's Jewish population
today is 172,000 in comparison with fig
ures of 200,000 in 1925.
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London—Field Marshal Lord Plumer,
second High Commissioner of Palestine,
and regarded as one of Britain’s five
greatest military figures, died here at the
age of 75. During his residence in Pal
estine, he won the esteem of the Jewish
population for his fairness and for his
genuine efforts to suppress anti-Jewish
agitation among the Arabs.
Jerusalem—Twenty-year-old Rashid
Salatnin, an Arab, has been sentenced to
fifteen years at hard labor, having been
convicted on the charge of murdering
Jochanan Strahl and Celia Zohar, whose
bodies were discovered in a sand pile
some months ago, after they had been
missing for several weeks. Another 17-
year-old Arab was on trial with Salamin
on the same charge but he was acquitted.
An Arab judge presided.
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