The German Embassy here has officially notified the Jewish students’ committee that it is bringing court action against them for distributing leaflets urging the population to avoid theatres where German motion pictures are exhibited. This unique action by the German officials has aroused general interest here.
The charge that German schools in Latvia are subsidized by the German Government to conduct anti-Semitic agitation, was made by Minister Kenisch. Addressing the Latvian parliament, he announced that vigorous steps would be taken to force the discontinuance of this Nazi agitation.
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