It was learned from a reliable diplomatic source today that a foreign power whose friendship the Reich is eagerly seeking has informed the German Government that if Jew-baiting in the Nazi press continues unchecked the development of friendly relations “will be seriously hampered.”
It was understood instructions have been issued to Nazi papers, as a result of this warning, to stop using the assassination of Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi leader, for anti-Jewish propaganda in the Nazi papers.
Confirmation of this was seen in the sudden shift in the attack of Reichsfuehrer Hitler’s Voelkischer Beobachter from the Jews to the Communists for the Gustloff murder.
The warning was understood to have had an effect upon the deliberations of Nazi Party leaders in Munich, who had met to map reprisals against the Jews for the slaying. The conference announced officially that it was continuing its sessions but divulged no details. There was reason to believe, however, that anti-Jewish measures would not be as extreme as Nazi leaders had at first planned.
The Beobachter which, had been assailing the Jews for the assassination on the basis of the fact that David Frankfurter, confessed slayer, is a Yugoslavian Jew, suddenly turned to an attack on the Communists, charging that Frankfurter had visited Moscow in 1934 to participate in an international conference of anti-Fascist Jews as the member of a Jewish sect, the “True Israelites.”
The paper also accused Frankfurter’s attorney, Dr. Lurie of Brue-t.,nn, Czechoslovakia, of being a member of the Communist International.
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