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Lecturing at Oxford on Jews who have been forced to flee from Germany, Sir John Simpson announced that thus far in Britain these refugees have done so well that they have given jobs to 25,000 Englishmen. Sir John blandly concluded a warm plea for more refugees saying, "Thus far the number of jobs they have given our people exceeds the number of refugees...
...diary and letters, Carl von Ossietsky never wavered, said "No!" to friends who had arranged for him to escape to Switzerland before he could be jailed. "If you wish to fight effectively against rottenness in a nation you must do it from the inside," said Ossietsky. "I will not flee abroad. A man speaks with but a hollow voice from across the border...
Jews rejoiced last week as King Carol II cracked down with all his royal might on the anti-Semitic Iron Guard. In particular His Majesty's titian-haired Jewish Pompadour, Mme Magda Lupescu, who had to flee Rumania when anti-Semitism recently burst out, was highly delighted. She was expected soon to return to Bucharest. Meanwhile the King's forces worked day & night last week, arresting anti-Semites and piling them into Rumanian jails. They were accused of being "anti-Rumanian," and Carol II let it be known that the probable form of Government in Rumania...
...ordered to leave the country in three days. His expulsion was countermanded but he would not stay. Marcel W. Fodor, famed Manchester Guardian and Chicago Daily News correspondent who supplied John Gunther and Dorothy Thompson with much of their Hitler-baiting background, thought it best for his health to flee Austria. Acme's Photographer Ernest Kleinberg, a Polish Jew, was taken into "protective custody." By week's end transfer of several foreign news service bureaus to suppression-free Prague, Budapest and other Central European capitals was under...
...worth of defaulted Public Works bonds, a faith which has inched the bonds from a record low 19¾ in 1933 to 74⅞ early this year, was climaxed politically in Havana last week. The bottom of 19! was hit soon after Dictator Gerardo Machado was forced to flee the island following the 1933 revolt. Eight years before he had embarked on an ambitious construction program which called for a 7O0-mile highway skewing the island; and streets, schools, public buildings for Havana. It was largely financed by $60,000,000 borrowed from New York's Chase National Bank...