The Jewish population of Danzig is living in a state of anxiety because the imminent dissolution of the Danzig Senate, which the Nazis demanded and which will probably take place, may also lead to constitutional changes affecting the Jews.
It was reported today that the public prosecutor in Danzig intends to reopen the charges against Theodore Loewy, editor of a local newspaper and correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency who was arrested last September for his anti-Nazi articles, and was later acquitted when the court recognized the baselessness of the charge.
Nazi elements here, which grow in power daily, are trying to “coordinate” all the Danzig newspapers to serve their propaganda purposes. Leaflets are being distributed throughout the city, urging the German population not to be represented in court by Jewish lawyers and to avoid Jewish doctors.
“A decent German must have no public dealings with Jews,” the leaflets urge. They advise, however, that Germans in Danzig, even if they are members of the Nazi party, should remain in their positions if they are engaged in firms owned by Jews.
Dr. M. Greiser, dictator of the Danzig Senate, under whose direction the vigorous anti-Jewish policy is being carried out, has ordered all the municipal libraries of the Free State to bar all books written by Jewish writers or-listed on the Nazi blacklist in Germany.
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