The German press today described the pro-Olympics decision of the Amateur Athletic Union as a “complete defeat for the Jewish boycott agitators.”
News of the decision, however, is given very little prominence, Der Angriff, leading Nazi organ, burying a brief cable dispatch on the story in an inside page.
Jewish circles here were depressed at the news, since it is now expected that with the Olympics issue safely out of the way, the Government will speed promulgation of the decrees ousting Jews from
commerce. These decrees had been held up, it was believed, in fear of arousing anti-Nazi opinion in the United States sufficiently to influence the A.A.U. to vote against participation. According to articles appearing in the German press Saturday, the new decrees on commerce are expected to be issued not later than Christmas.
The Leni Riesenstahl firm, producers of the Nazi Party Congress films, were today awarded the contract of film the Olympic Games in the languages of the competing countries.
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