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“Murder–Made in Germany,” by Heinz Liepmann, will not be withdrawn from circulation, despite the libel suit brought by D. Sefton Delmer, London Express correspondent, it was announced yesterday by Cass Canfield, president of Harper and Bros., publishers.

Delmer, who was in Berlin at the time of teh Reichstag fire a year ago last February, is suing the New York firm for $250,000 and the London firm of Hamish Hamilton for the same amount.

The complaint against Harper’s was filed in the Supreme Court of New York County by the English writer’s local attorneys, Jackson, Fuller, Nash and Brophy, 15 Broad street. It is alleged that Delmer was libelled in Liepmann’s book. The offending passage, quoted as being recorded on phonograph records clandestinely circulated in Berlin as part of teh anti-Nazi propaganda, appears on the bottom of Page 142 and on the top of the following page and reads:

“(6) Hitler’s constant companion and friend, the English journalist Delmer, telegraphed to his paper a few minutes before the fire was discovered, all about the fire and who had done it.”

The author has served a month in a Dutch prison for another statement in the same work, to the effect that Hindenburg named Hitler Chancellor in a deal to kill the investigation into relief funds given Hindenburg’s Eastern Prussian estate from the Osthilfe, or Eastern Relief.

Liepmann was arrested and jailed on the ground of having libelled the head of a friendly government, but German efforts to extradite him were foiled.

Larkin, Andrews and McNaughton, 32 Liberty street, represent Harper’s and have until some time in May to file their answer to the complaint.