Major Leon Hardt was found guilty by the Swiss court here today in a libel suit brought against him by a number of prominent Freemasons for alleging that “the Freemasons are tools of a Jewish conspiracy.”
The allegation was made by Major Hardt in an article printed in Volksbund, a paper of which he is the publisher. The verdict provides that Major Hardt is to pay a fine and damages to the plaintiff and that he must publish the verdict in the press.
“PROTOCOLS” TRIAL APRIL 29
Preparations were made today in Berne for the resumption of the trial against Swiss Nazi leaders for publishing the so-called “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” an anti-Jewish forgery. The trial is expected to be resumed on April 29.
The trial was adjourned on October 31 to enable the National Socialist defense to obtain an expert to argue the alleged authenticity of the “Protocols.”
SOUGHT PASTOR
Originally the defense had proposed as their expert the Nazi expastor Muenchmeyer, who could not be reached by the German Post Office, the court was informed, although he was being reported in the Hitlerite press as addressing public meetings at that time in association with Julius Streicher.
Finally, Col. Fleischhauer, an anti-Semitic publisher in Erfurt, Germany, came forward and un-
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