A bold demand that the Nazi party content itself with the anti-Jewish legislation enacted by the government and adjust its anti-Jewish platform to coincide with the government policy was made today by the Frankfurter Zeitung, one of the few independent newspapers left in Germany.
This is the second article on the Jewish question in Germany published by the Frankfurter Zeitung in the last week. The attempt of the paper to bring the Jewish question into the open where it could be discussed has resulted in a flood of vitriolic abuse in the Nazi press.
ALL GERMANY SUFFERING
Declining to enter into polemics with the Nazi press, the paper pointed out it was concerned with the Jewish issue because every German was suffering as a result of the world-wide boycott.
Behind the extraordinarily bold stand of the Frankfurter Zeitung, informed circles here see the hand of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, economic dictator of the Third Reich, whose star is in the ascendancy. Dr. Schacht is a determined opponent of Nazi radicalism, particularly financial. He is known to desire some definite settlement of the Jewish question based exclusively on the government’s anti-Jewish legislation as against the extreme program of the Nazi party itself.
Such a solution based on acceptance of the status quo, Dr. Schacht feels, would ease Germany’s international situation and help to break the international trade barriers created by the boycott against German-made goods.
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