Hitler jailed; a hostel for girls; Saint Joan
A Remarkable Trial
General Ludendorff has been acquitted in the Munich treason trial, while the notorious Hitler and his chief colleagues were sentenced to five years’ confinement in a fortress. It is difficult to understand why upon the evidence Ludendorff was acquitted and Hitler convicted and it seems doubtful whether the evidence had much to do with the verdict. The war service of Ludendorff was rightly not forgotten but very wrongly they were allowed to cover his multitude of sins. Those involved, besides rebellion against the Republic, a virulent and venomous campaign against the Jews… But Hitler’s downfall is at least satisfactory to all, including Jews themselves, who abominate racial hatred and the setting of citizen against citizen on account of race or religion. But the apparently formidable sentence passed upon him is known to be purely nominal. He is to be released “conditionally” after serving six months, and service is to be reckoned from the moment at which he awaited trial. So that this execrable agitator who has gone so far as to say that he desired that Jews should be massacred wholesale, and has done his best to bring his wish to fulfilment, will get off with practically no punishment at all, or about the same as is awarded to some poor, starving wretch who steals a crust in order to keep body and soul together.
Sara Pyke House.
The new premises of Sara Pyke House, the Hostel for Working Girls maintained by the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women, were opened on Sunday by Lady Tuck. The Home, formerly located in Great Prescott Street, has secured a bright and airy habitation at 99H ighbury Quadrant. The rooms have been tastefully furnished, and a large garden adds to the amenities of the institution… Miss Wall, of the Home Office, said that during the war she knew something of girls’ difficulties thrown into lodgings often very uncomfortable; the expenses were very high and the landlady rather unfriendly, while it was so lonely going back from work to their own company. Sara Pyke House, which she admired, had met that need.
GBS and the Jews
Mr George Bernard Shaw’s new play Saint Joan contained a notable epigram on the Jews. It runs thus: “The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.”