Editor,
The Jewish Daily Bulletin:
The current issue of the United States Law Review (April, 1934), a legal periodical published by the Hon. Archibald M. Watson, contains an article by Mr. Samuel R. Wachtell, senior member of the firm of Wachtell, Manheim & Grouf, international law experts, summarizing the law of various central European countries on the subject of powers of attorney. The material for this article is contributed by an eminent jurist from each of the jurisdictions. Thus, the Austrian material is furnished by Dr. Siegfried Kantor, president of the Bar Association of Vienna; the material on Czechoslovakia by Dr. Ian Loewenbach, an eminent lawyer of Prague; the Dutch and Hungarian material by distinguished jurists of Amsterdam and Budapest, respectively, etc.
The author’s footnote under the chapter dealing with the German law reads as follows:
“It is a matter of regret to the writer that he is unable to present the views of an eminent German lawyer to speak for his jurisdiction, as was done in the other jurisdictions under discussion. A probable explanation may be found in the fact that the distinguished jurist who had promised to furnish a written opinion was recently disbarred by the present German government for racial or political reasons, according to press reports.”
JACOB CHAITKIN.
New York City.
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