The B’nai B’rith and similar lodges and associations with foreign ties should be put under political observation, according to a demand voiced in today’s Nazi press, which points out that these organizations are subsidized by foreign capital, spent in the effort to spread pacifism among the German people whose martial spirit they may weaken with their brotherhood-of-man ideas. Investigation was also demanded of foreign religious organizations functioning in Germany.
The shipping of goods from Germany was today put under government control, similar to that governing the export of currency, by order of the Ministry of Economics. Necessity for the measure was explained on the ground that numerous emigrants from Germany converted their cash into goods which when exported abroad, was sold, so that in effect the export of goods constituted the export of money. Henceforth, every commercial deal for export will be regulated by the currency department.
It is learned here that the police of Dessau have ordered the liquidation of all advertising firms controlled by Jews and have ordered that only Aryan advertising firms may continue in business.
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