World Press Digest

The New Statesman and Nation, well known English publication, speaking on Germany, says:

Dr. Schacht is in the ascendant, and he stands for nineteenth century capitalism, not for medieval distributism. The one aspect of National Socialism that certainly remains is its political terrorism. There is no relaxation of the “Aryan clauses” and, instead of the promised lull in persecutions after the Saar, there are signs in the renewed activities of the nauseating Streicher and his friends of a new drive against the Jews.

SPOKE UP FOR JEWS, HITLER GAGS HIM

Ludwig Lore in his daily column in the New York Post, commenting on the growing anti-Jewish agitation in Germany, says:

The Chicago Daily News tells an incredible story. “Rumor has it,” says its Berlin correspondent, “that Herman Roechling, the great steel producer of the Saar, was unceremoniously dismissed from an interview with Chancellor Hitler when he tried to put in a good word for the Jews in the territory.” “The interview is at an end,” the Chancellor is reported to have said brusquely when Roechling tried to discuss the subject. Herman Roechling, it should not be forgotten, was the leader of the German front in the Saar. He not only directed the Saar campaign but spent several hundred thousand marks out of his own pocket. In unimportant matters of political and economic principle, Hitler will talk turkey with his industrialists. But he who doubts the virtues of Nazi anti-Semitism attacks the fundamentals of the Hitler regime.

BAER-SCHMELING BOUT INTRIGUES BRISBANE

Arthur Brisbane commenting in his column in the Hearst newspapers on Schmeling’s victory over Hamas in Germany, writes:

Max Schmeling, German heavyweight prizefighter beat Mr. Hamas with ease, and says: “Now we get Baer.” Baer, you know is the world heavyweight champion. The fact that he is a Jew, and not a blue-eyed Nordic, with the back of his head as straight up and down as a board fence, is said to annoy Mr. Hitler.

It will interest Hitler and others. A hard-hitting “Nordic” meets Max Baer, a tall young Jew who laughs while he fights. The meeting will settle nothing. Racial supremacy does not depend on the fist. But in New York City it ought to draw a crowd, gigantic, and a “gate” of about $1,000,000.

Jews do well whatever is worth doing, and there is nothing new about Jewish prizefighting champions. Mendoza “The Jew,” whom you may see fighting without gloves in old British prints, had a habit of knocking men out. Benny Leonard, in his prime, was the best man in the world in his class.