Jewish leaders have been constrained to deny the very existence of Rabbi Jonas Fraenkel, who was beaten unconscious by Nazis, it appears today. The German official press carries official statements by prominent Jews who assert that there is no such person as Rabbi Fraenkel.
The Rabbi, who is so much in existence today as to be giving a detailed account of his sufferings in Prague, where he recently arrived after a thrilling escape from Berlin, was the cause of an official protest from the Polish government to the Reich. Rabbi Fraenkel, a Polish citizen, was beaten unconscious by Nazi storm-troopers who broke into his flat on Dragonstrasse.
The German government now presents the official denial of his existence as a proof of the baselessness of the “foreign atrocity propaganda.”
An official report on the attack on Rabbi Fraenkel was telegraphed from Berlin at the time by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
James P. Warburg, vice-chairman of the Bank of the Manhattan Company, has been offered the Under-secretaryship of the United States Treasury. He has been unofficial adviser to the President in preparing for the World Economic Conference. He is now in Washington, taking part in the international conference on economic problems. Among Mr. Warburg’s fellow-conferees are Ramsay MacDonald, President Roosevelt, Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, and Cordell Hull.
Mr. Warburg was associated with the First National Bank of Boston, and the International Acceptance Bank, Inc., of which he became vice-president and which he left early in 1929 to become president of the International Manhattan Company, Inc. He was also vice-chairman of the Manhattan Company. Later in 1932, upon the merger of the International Acceptance Bank, Inc., with the Bank of the Manhattan Company, he was named to the position he now holds. He is a director in various other banking enterprises and in railroads.
Mr. Warburg is 36 years old. He was born in Hamburg, the son of Paul Warburg, who was governor of the Federal Reserve Board in the Wilson administration.
The Undersecretaryship of the Treasury was offered to Walter W. Steward of New York, recently, but he declined.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
