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Grynszpan was being held under two charges: the capital crime of murdering the German Embassy Third Secretary Ernst vom Rath; and the technical but grave charge of having remained in France in defiance of an order issued to expel him from the country as an undesirable alien some time before his crime. Previous Paris dispatches saying he would likely be guillotined for the murder were superseded by guesses that he would be let off without hard labor...
...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...
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...
...Britain's Neville Chamberlain did say: "No one in this country would seek to defend the senseless crime of the murder of vom Rath, but at the same time there will be deep and widespread sympathy for those being made to suffer...