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Show Prevailing Opinions Comment of the American Press ' ' Britain as trustee for th nations ' of th world to take drastic steps in facilitating immediately the settlement of the large number of Jewish emigrants clamoring to enter the Holy Land. Los Angeles An-geles Examiner. Poland and Palestine ' On of th great historic consequences con-sequences of the World war, and one that advanced the cause of human Justice, was the liberation and reconstruction of Poland as a free country after centuriea of subjugation and oppression. In that settlement, the government and people of the United States did more than any other nation In th world to restore th independence inde-pendence of a reunited Poland. At th same t-'me, the very powers which gave the persecuted people of Poland a new homeland also provided for the restoration of Palestine aa a homeland for another an-other persecuted people, the Jews of central and eastern Europe. Today th three million Jews of Poland are in a state of economic prostration. But even more appalling ap-palling la th tide of blind anti-emitism anti-emitism In Poland which is threatening to expel them from th country in which they have lived for hundreds of years. That the Polish people, so recently re-cently among th persecuted, should now turn persecutors themselves is one of the incredible phenomena of our times, one of the signs of the breakdown of European civilisation. But can Poland afford to alienate th sympathies of America by yielding to th barbarous agitation agita-tion of antisemitism? We cannot believe that any responsible re-sponsible Polish statesman, or any responsible Polish political party, will follow such a fatal path. The precarious position of the new republic makea its own survival dependent upon th sympathy of th world. Th report of Senators Cope-. Cope-. land, Austin and Hastings, who last summer conducted a firsthand first-hand Investigation in Palestine for th Hearst newspapers, have demonstrated that the Jewish homeland offers ample room and opportunity for new settlers. In th face of th catastrophe pending over th Jew of Poland, it is the solemn duty of Great Build the Nicaragua". Canall Toward the commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, anni-versary, of the adoption of th constitution of th United States th new congress can make a contribution that would strengthen strength-en America and serve the world. It can authorize the building of the Nlcaraguan canal as a national na-tional thank offering by th American people for the blessings of liberty and justice which they hav enjoyed under this great charter of their freedom throughout through-out the first one hundred and fi&y years of the nation's life. The completion of the Nlcaraguan Nlcara-guan canal would double the defense de-fense value of the Panama canaL It would also double th facilitiea of that waterway for th commerce com-merce of th world. It would benefit all the American Ameri-can republics by promoting the peace and prosperity of Central America, whoa people deserve th stable government which an inter-oceanic inter-oceanic canal would encourage. All thia th federal government foresaw when It purchased the Nlcaraguan canal route in 191 during th presidency of Wood-row Wood-row Wilson. What more appropriate celebration celebra-tion of the constitution's sesqui-centennial sesqui-centennial can th congress provide pro-vide than by authorising the completion com-pletion ef the greatest unfinished task before the American people th building of th Nicaraguan canal? Under the presidency of Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt, army engineers built the Panama canal to th glory of America and th welfare of the world. Under th presidency of Franklin Frank-lin D. Roosevelt, army engineer are ready to repeat that triumph by building the Nicaraguan canal New York American. Out-Talked Them Customer Are you sure this parrot can talk? Dealer Can he talk? Why a woman's club sold him ts me because be-cause none of th member could get in a word. Pathfinder. |