Rare Booklet – Proposal to Settle Jews in Angola – France, 1938

Rare Booklet – Proposal to Settle Jews in Angola – France, 1938
Emigration eventuelle Juive en Angola [Potential Emigration of Jews to Angola], by Jacques N. Politis. [France, ca. 1938]. French.
The plan for Jewish settlement in Angola was one of a series of plans to settle Jews in remote places in the world, which were suggested as "alternate homelands for the Jewish People" throughout the 1930s (among these homelands were the Virgin islands, Belgian Kongo, Costa Rika and British Guyana). The plan was supported by USA President Franklin D. Roosevelt, yet was accepted with indifference by the British government and was therefore abandoned.
This booklet documents a private attempt to promote the plan, done by a member of the French branch of the Rothschild family, the lawyer Jacques N. Politis. The booklet contains four short chapters summarizing the proposal (the agreements reached during negotiations with the government of Portugal, the steps that should be taken to enable the emigration, the advantages of settlement in Angola and conclusions) as well as a color map of Angola (cut from another book and mounted to one of the leaves), on which the areas suitable for settlement are marked by hand. Printed on bottom of the front cover is the name of the person to whom this copy of the booklet was given – Madam Halphen.
[2], 9 pp + [1] map, 27.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes.
Not in OCLC.