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...moment you begin helping the Jews out of that country, you are aiding and abetting a policy of the Hitler government.... You are paying the kidnapper the ransom he demands, for you will be contributing to the Von Rath "fine" or to a "leaving-the-country" tax.... And if the Nazi government succeeds in getting this ransom money, it at once establishes a precedent to be followed by other European Have-Not countries, such as Italy, Poland, and Hungary, where Anti-Semitism smolders, awaiting a real test of its usefulness as an instrument of economic policy. Hence, the welfare...
...actual help was brought by Miss Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) to the Jew most nearly concerned, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan. Neither he nor anyone else denies that he shot and killed in the German Embassy at Paris, after asking to see the Ambassador, Third Secretary Ernst vom Rath...
...assassin or commute a death sentence on Herschel Grynszpan to life imprisonment would be to provoke openly Adolf Hitler, who would also be provoked by any attempt to prove the assassin insane. Thus far all Grynszpan's statements have been perfectly coherent admissions that he killed voni Rath for perfectly obvious reasons which might inspire any of the thousands of refugees from Naziland who are now in desperate straits in France...
Meantime, Nazis themselves were worried. Their problem was how to collect the 1,000,000,000-mark fine for the killing in Paris of Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by Polish Jew Herschel Grynszpan. Some 9,000,000 marks was got out of rich Berlin Jews, but there was some question that the raising of the other 991,000,000 might cause such widespread liquidations of assets that the delicate German economy would be jeopardized...
...Committee's action is an out-growth of the student sentiment which was mobilized at a mass meeting held Wednesday, November 16, to protest the Nazi outrages which followed the recent killing of German Ambassador Vom Rath in Paris. Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, and one of the nine sponsoring professors, has been a guiding hand in its development...