Chancellor Adolf Hitler tonight was report planning even more drastic regulations for control of the German press, according to the Havas News Agency.
According to the reports, the Fuehrer will issue a decree in the near future requiring all editors and publishers of German newspapers to be members of the Nazi Party.
Publication of several newspapers will be suspended altogether under the new regulations, it was said, and a number of others merged. Among those reported slated for mergers were the important Berlin newspapers Deutsche Allegemeine Zeitung and the Berliner Tageblatt.
The 50-year-old Frankfurter Zeitung, which up to the present has maintained a certain extent of independence in its comment on foreign policy, will reportedly become an official organ of the Nazi Party under the new regulations.
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