With the “Protocols” trial entering its third week tomorrow, and with the verdict expected Monday or Tuesday, it became known today that Col. Fleischauer, the Nazi expert, made a special visit to M. Marcel Pilet-Golaz, President of the Swiss Federal Government, and lodged a complaint with him against the Berne court “for permitting Dr. Loosli, the court’s expert, to use libelous language against Germany during his testimony at the trial.”
The President retorted to Col. Fleischauer that “Switzerland is not yet Gleichgeschaltet.” M. Pilet-Golaz then pointed out to the Nazi “expert” from Germany that the courts in Switzerland are independent, and that he would be better advised to make his complaints directly to the court.
MASONS TO SUE “EXPERT”
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency learns that the Masonic lodge here intends to bring action against Col. Fleischauer, charging him with libel and with deliberate falsification of facts during his “expert” testimony at the “Protocols” trial.
Summing up the legal aspects of the charges, which Jewish leaders in Switzerland brought against the Swiss Nazis for spreading the notorious anti-Semitic “Protocols,” Prof. Matti, one of the lawyers at the trial, in his address before the court on Saturday declared that not only are the forged “Protocols” spread by the Nazis, but that “all anti-Semitic literature in Switzerland bears a Berlin stamp.”
PLEADS FOR INDEPENDENCE
Prof. Matti made a stirring plea to protect Switzerland’s indepen-
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