The Dawa, Nazi anti-Jewish economic organization, yesterday threw off the control of Dr. Hubert Schnuch, president of the Friends of New Germany, and set itself up as an independent, “impartial” organization.
At the same time it warned Dr. Schnuch to withdraw his followers from the executive committee of the DAWA within ten days lest it be obliged to “draw its own inferences.”
SCHNUCH MIGHT BROKEN
The revolt of the DAWA, formerly faithful to Schnuch, marks the second major blow to his supremacy in American Nazidom. The first was the recent successful revolt of Anton Haegele, who decimated the ranks of the Friends by forming a new Nazi organization, the American National Socialist League.
The DAWA was seen veering from Schnuch to Haegele yesterday as it proclaimed itself interested in unifying the warring Schnuch and Haegele factions. But behind the ostensible mediation there was seen an attempt to desert Schnuch.
OFFERS TO JOIN FACTIONS
The DAWA had offered to unify the two factions, but demanded that both groups first withdraw their followers from membership in the DAWA executive committee. This seemingly impartial re-
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