Broken Promise

Knocked into a cocked hat last week was the plan of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees for the orderly and systematic evacuation of Jews from Germany. Success of the plan depended on Adolf Hitler's two-weeks-old promise to observe a temporary truce in his anti-Semitic campaign while the $300,000,000 corporation to finance Jewish emigration was being set up. Last week Dictator Hitler bluntly broke his promise, permitted Berlin police to experiment with a new method for running Jews out of Germany and grabbing their property.

The Berlin method: to require each day the names of 100 Berlin Jews who will leave Germany within the next fortnight. When the 100 have paid their taxes, their share in the $400,000,000 vom Rath fine, the capital flight tax, contributed to the fund for the support of aged Jews and sold their jewelry to the State at the State's own price, they will be given passports marked with a large "J" (for Jew), told to get their visas. For those who don't get out on time, "dire penalties" will be provided.

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