"Lump"

One of Nazi Germany's most dangerous clowns is round, red Julius Streicher, Governor of Franconia, who affects a riding crop, likes to be called the "Bloody Tsar of Nuernberg," and lards his anti-Jew harangues with so much sexual obscenity that they can be printed in full only in his own Der Struemer. Last week a naturalized U. S. citizen named Ludwig Hoffmann was in a Nuernberg jail for having had the audacity to describe Nuernberg's Boss Streicher as a Lump at a Nuernberg beer festival. Citizen Hoffmann, who lives in Chicago and went back to his German birthplace only to show off his Danish wife, asked and got the backing of U. S. Consul General Douglas Jenkins in Berlin, who protested last week to the German Ministry of Justice.

Lump is no violent epithet. In meaning it ranges from rag or garbage to rascal, mucker or good-for-nothing. Many a good Nazi has privately called Herr Streicher far worse. But the corollary of Streicher's philosophy that "A Jew is always a Jew," is "A German is always a German, even if he lives at the North Pole."

By last week a native-born U. S. seaman had served more than a year in German concentration camps and prisons without any trial whatever. Seaman Lawrence B. Simpson, 34, was last year dragged off the U. S. liner Manhattan in Hamburg, charged with possessing 500,000 Communist pamphlets. Last July New York City Communists rioted onto the German liner Bremen in protest against Simpson's jailing, while his father mournfully asserted that Son Lawrence was no Communist. Last fortnight the Ministry of Justice transferred Seaman Simpson from camp to Berlin's famed Moabit Prison, changed the charge against him to trying to smuggle marks out of Germany, announced that he will go on secret trial before the so-called People's Court next week.

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