In a vigorously-worded protest against a recent decree restricting Nazi activities in the Union of South Africa Germany today asked that it be applied in such a way as not to increase differences between Germans there and other sections of the population, the Havas News Agency reported.
The note, presented by German Minister Emil Wiehl to Prime Minister J. B.M. Hertzog, said the decree was “combative” in character and contradictory to the status as a mandated territory of the formerly German part of the union.
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