The Week, an information service issued by Claude Cockburn, declares that the French police have information that the German Government arranged for the killing of Ernst vom Rath, German Embassy official in Paris, who was slain by Herschel Grynszpan, 18-year-old Polish Jew.
(The Social Democratic weekly, Neue Volkszeitung, published in New York, charges that the reason Chancellor Hitler failed to deliver the funeral oration for vom Rath was that his father berated the Fuehrer for speaking of revenge as they stood beside the Embassy official’s bier.)
The Week declared: “The Paris Surete declares that there is no doubt whatever that the German Government arranged for the killing, that the police have the proofs, and that the only question is whether they are to be allowed to use them or not. The Italian Embassy in London is eagerly engaged in spreading a story to roughly the same effect…The German Government is still working to try to prevent the case (trial) being held in public.”
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