It is understood here that the last-minute modifications in the Nazi boycott plans in Germany, were due not only to Foreign Minister Neurath’s threatened resignation but also to pressure from Hugenberg, leader of the Nationalists, and Dr. Schacht, head of the Deutsche Bank.
It appears also that strenuous efforts were made by the non-Nazi members of the Cabinet to compel a complete abandonment of the boycott and that these efforts were reinforced by the representations of some of the greatest German industrialists, including Krupp’s and Siemens’. It was only in deference to the Nazi argument that complete abandonment would be too much of a strain on the discipline of the Nazi troops and might produce wide-spread violence, that the majority of the cabinet agreed to the one-day boycott, but with the strict stipulation that it would not be resumed.
There is also strong reason for the belief that President von Hindenburg threw his weight on the side of the abandonment of the boycott and was even prepared to use the powers left to him by the Enabling Act which created a Cabinet dictatorship.
It is expected that President von Hindenburg will today reply to the appeal for intervention made to him by German Jewish organizations last week.
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