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Avarian Antisemites Defy German Court

April 16, 1923
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The responsible editor of Hitler’s anti-Semitic organ, Voelkischer Boebachter of Munich, and he editor of the anti-Semitic Mierbacher Anzeiger have been summoned to appear before Germany’s political Supreme Court at ###e###psic under the law for safeguarding the republic, says a copyright Berlin dispatch to the New York Times today. Both ###ave refused to appear or acknowledge the authority of this tri ###unal, asserting that only Bavarian courts can try Bavarians.Hitler himself expects a summons to appear before the Leipsic Supreme Court, and he has told his followers that he will not ###o and appealed to them to “stand hard as steel by our movement We won’t talk”.

The whole Munich press, however, sides against the recalcitrants, declaring that they ought not to defy the law at this time, as in view of the ###hr struggle this is not time to provoke an internal German conflict.

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