The promise of the German Government to modify the limitations set up against Jewish lawyers was due to Norman H. Davis’s talk with Hitler and Minister of Foreign Affairs Neurath, the “Daily Herald” declares. Mr. Davis told Hitler in definite words that the silent pogrom carried on in Germany against the Jewish population has made a disastrous impression on the United States Government and American public opinion. Davis made it clear that the National Socialist denials of anti-Jewish discrimination did not make any impression whatever in the United States, as it was universally realized that these denials were due to official pressure.
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