The opposition Social Democratic party today urged Dr. Hans Globke to request provisional retirement from his post of State Secretary to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to avoid “the tainting of the Chancellor’s Government with a new scandal. ” Dr. Globke has been under fire for some time in connection with his role as a commentator on the Nuremberg anti-Jewish laws of the Nazi regime.
The Social Democratic party press service wrote that it would be best for Dr. Globke to retire from public life “until a court has cleared up the charges about his activities during the Third Revch. ” Dr. Globke is now under investigation by the Frankfurt prosecution office.
A conference on “The Prevention of Prejudice, “sponsored by the Youth Institute of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, was opened in Munich today. The five-day meeting, which will deal with methods of parental education, is being attended by psychologists and sociologists from the United States, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany. Among the U.S. delegates are representatives of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith and the American Jewish Committee.
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