"World Pest"

While a high Nazi official in Berlin was telling the world last week that in Germany today Jews are "economically untouched" (see above), local Nazi satraps got on with their work. In Leipzig, where the famed Fair will be attended this week by no Jewish buyers except the most furtive, Governor Martin Mutschmann of Saxony emotionally declared: "In the dark period when the whole world beset us, the Fuehrer showed the German people the road to the light. He gave this people confidence and created possibilities for work without having to make use of the raw-material resources still dominated by the Jews. Today we already see the road opening itself to the goal that excludes the Jewish world trader. We thereby get him at his touchiest spot."

Pointing to Germany with pride as the land where "Judaism no longer possesses its former weapons--the radio, the theatre and the press," Governor Mutschmann broadened his theme, pulled out all the emotional stops: "It must constantly be pointed out that the Jewish question is the key to world history and we must not show any yielding in that question. No day must pass on which this World Pest is not characterized as such!"

From Nuernberg last week famed New York Timeswoman Anne O'Hare McCormick reported Nazi activities even more unbusinesslike: "This is the worst spot in Germany for Jews. All they suffer elsewhere is exaggerated here.

"Customers are photographed coming out of Jewish shops. Placards announcing 'Jews not wanted' are displayed in cafes and restaurants. 'Jewish students enter here at their own risk,' reads a notice at the door of the Technical School. Jews cannot attend the theatre, opera or motion pictures without risk of insult. Oldtime friends are afraid to visit or greet them in the street. Nowhere else are they so cut off from normal life or subjected to such economic boycott and social ostracism. . . .

"[Nuernberg] illustrates the best and the worst features of Nazi local government. Nowhere else has the winter relief campaign been carried on with livelier zeal. The poor are well taken care of, order has replaced former disorder, and the restoration of historic buildings and civil beautification are proceeding on all sides. Unemployment has been reduced from 70,000 to 25,000 in two years, notwithstanding that the chief manufactures--toys, lead pencils, brushes and Diesel engines-- largely depend on an export market that is now near the vanishing point."

In Berlin, where Minister of Economics Hjalmar Schacht keeps telling the restive and doubtful Realmleader that business is business. Dr. Schacht last week made a sort of last stand by defiantly announcing that in the Reichsbank, of which he is Governor, Jews will be safe in their jobs. Lately, bitter Nazi district leaders have been saying that "Dr. Schacht, with his Jewish-tainted international banker mentality, is a menace to the spiritual rebirth of the Fatherland."

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