Justice Felix Frankfurter refused to sit in on deliberations of the Supreme Court while it considered the “Mein Kampf” case, it was learned today.
The court declined to review a lower court decision which gave Houghton, Mifflin Company a virtual monopoly of the publication of the works of Adolf Hitler in America. Stack pole Sons, Inc. and the Telegraph press contested the Hitler copyrights, contending that Hitler was a citizen of no country when the copyrights were obtained.
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