Efforts of colleges and other groups in the United States to buy books by “non-Aryan” authors being purged from the Vienna State library appear to be doomed to failure by a precedent set by Chancellor Hitler.
An application some time ago to buy books by Jews in Germany which Hitler had announced would be destroyed was met with a personal reply from the Reichsfuehrer in which he said he could not consent because he did not wish to have the morals of the English people corrupted.
This was revealed by Miss Christine Foyle of the well-known bookshop, W. and G. Foyle, Ltd., who told a women’s conference in Birmingham that she had written to Hitler asking. if her firm could buy all the books to be destroyed because she considered that most of the best German books were written by Jews, particularly among the young writers.
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