Friendly but Firm

In London last week for the Nemesis of Nazis, James Grover McDonald of Bronxville, N. Y. who since 1933 has been the League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, was mailed his 3,000-word resignation in 17 numbered sections with a 20,000 word annex attached. It did not state why the High Commissioner resigned.

Evidently sick at heart and discouraged at the unwillingness of the Great Powers to do anything about the unspeakable abuses he has encountered in Germany, U. S. Citizen McDonald cataloged them in Sears Roebuck fashion and resigned. Excoriating the German Government of today for ''crushing" not only Jews but also Protestants, Catholics and whomever else is not quick to toe the Hitler-Goring-Goeb- bels-Streicher-Rosenberg line, Mr. Mc-Donald bitterly concludes that in Germany what now passes for "law" is merely the "whim" of German bigwigs defying world public opinion beneath the swastika.

Taxing the German Government and Judiciary with "avowed abolition" of the "corner stones of judicial morality," the onetime High Commissioner of the League of Nations goes far toward confirming Adolf Hitler's conviction that one of the Realmleader's greatest and most German strokes of statecraft was to lead the Fatherland out of the League. With Geneva thus in effect shut out of German affairs, Germans, on Mr. McDonald's showing, are reveling today in a carnival of race pride, race prejudice and exaltation of race.

"The method of administering justice," concludes Bronxville's McDonald, "is in conformity with the definition of the law given by Alfred Rosenberg . . .: 'Law is what the "Aryan" man deems to be right; legal wrong is what he rejects.' " By this arrangement of German Justice, a situation is created which soft-spoken James Grover McDonald feels ought to cause the Great Powers to deal with Germany in a manner "friendly but firm."

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