Attacking grant of a New York State charter to the Friends of New Germany on the ground that the league is run on the un-American leadership principle, Congressman Samuel Dickstein asked Supreme Court Justice Edward J. McGoldrick, in the latter’s chambers here yesterday, to refuse the organization’s appeal.
After Dickstein and D. W. Van Sickle, of Newark, N. J., counsel for the Nazi group, had submitted memorandums, Justice McGoldrick reserved decision. Benjamin A. Hartstein also appeared as a friend of the court.
According to Dickstein’s memorandum, the Friends “do not elect officers in the manner in which the Membership Corporation Law of this State calls for the selection of officers and directors of membership corporations.”
LEADERS ARE NAMED
Instead, the Congressman declares, “the method of government is by the selection of a ‘National Leader’ by a national convention, which ‘leader’ in turn appoints State leaders, etc.”
“The Constitution of the United States,” the memorandum points out, “guarantees to each State a republican form of government,
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