Nazi Leaders Split on New Laws, Promulgation Delayed

Expected yesterday, the new administrative regulations putting into effect the recently enacted Reichstag laws will not be announced before the week-end, it was learned here today when it was disclosed that a sharp dispute over those regulations has developed behind the scenes.

The issue at stake is whether the new laws shall affect full-blooded Jews only, or also other “non-Aryans,” it is learned. The Reichswehr, it is understood, favors the former interpretation, since otherwise many “non-Aryans” will automatically be expelled from the army. The radical wing of the Nazi party, however, is insistent that the new laws affect all “non-Aryans.”

This difference of opinion is responsible for a split in Nazi leadership which delayed the announcement as to how the laws are to be applied.

One Nazi paper points out that the announcement of the new regulations will coincide with the Jewish New Year and will be”a special contribution by the Nazis to the spirit of the occasion.”

Disclosing why the idea of giving Jews a national minority status was given up, the Nazi press today states “it was feared that Jews might somehow manipulate and invent issues with which they could come before the League of Nations.”

“We can easily imagine,” the statement says, “how the League would handle Jewish complaints and how it would welcome them.”

For removing copies of the Stuermer, Streicher’s pornographic anti-Semitic paper, which had been posted in the streets of Dortmund, the municipal court there today ordered the dismissal of a city official and fined him thirty marks.

In passing sentence, the court emphasized that the Stuermer “serves Nazi interests, and that by removing the posted copies, the city official displayed his opposition to the present regime.”