World Press Digest

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Describing present conditions in Frankfurt-am-Main, Anne O’Hare McCormick, in a cable to the New York Times, writes:

About a third of the leading citizens have departed. With the old Jewish banking houses has gone the commercial, artistic and social life peculiar to Frankfurt which they developed. The Jewish population of nearly 60,000 has shrunk to half its former size. Last year 500 business firms closed down. The treatment of the Jews remaining is not crude as at Nuremberg, but it is a mistake to believe the government policy is relaxing. No more violence exists, but legal disabilities gradually are codefying into a system and petty persecutions persist.

The flag incident yesterday, designed to make Jews unpopular among patriotic Germans, was one among dozens of cases of official bullying observed or heard of in the day’s round. Lists of patrons of Jewish shops have been published in Nazi papers.

Always excepting the barber shops, where Jews are the best customers, labels on the windows designate “German firms” where only German custom is desired. This method is known as a “cold boycott,” but fewer and fewer shoppers are intimidated. Jewish merchants report good business.

WOULD FORCE ALIENS TO REGISTER

A campaign to compel all aliens in the United States to register has been started by the Hearst newspapers. An editorial in the New York American says:

Aliens should not only be compelled to register, but should be compelled to give their political, personal and professional pedigrees, and to state specifically why they are here.

A McCormack bill, now before Congress, contains a provision compelling such registration.

It is the most important part of the measure, because it will enable the authorities to keep tabs on alien Reds and other foreign sappers and chiselers.

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