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Last week in Pennsylvania's Legislature, Representative Thomas Weidemann of Delaware County introduced a bill with the shortest title ("To Cure Lawyers' Mistakes") of any of the 1,201 measures filed in the Harrisburg House this session: "All mistakes by lawyers are hereby erased, but every one else shall be required to abide by the letter and spirit of the laws. This statute shall work prospectively and retroactively forever...
Mourned Representative Weidemann: "Lawyers can't bury their mistakes like doctors...
...version of The Gospel According to St. John, adapted from Martin Luther's standard German translation of the Bible. This was big news for Nordic churchgoers, because the man responsible for the metamorphosis of St. John into an up-to-date Nazi was none other than Dr. Heinz Weidemann, Bishop of Bremen, who is no black sheep of the German Evangelical Church but one of its prime spiritual forces...
Most subtly effective in damning the Jews is Bishop Weidemann's new Gospel. Says the Bishop in his preface: "The German of the Third Reich must know what Christ, Whom the Jews nailed to the cross, means." More than once the phrase "The Jews jeered and said'' appears in the new Nazified version instead of "Then said the Jews," as in the Lutheran version. "Jewland" takes the place of the original "Judea" and this "Jewland" is carefully distinguished from the province of Galilee, where Christ preached. The implication is that this was not in "Jewland." Throughout...
...Elysees to dip their flags over the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in honor of their comrades who died during the Ruhr occupation. A third demonstration took place two days earlier when a crowd of nearly 1,000 Jews & Communists rioted at a Brooklyn quayside, waiting to boo Hans Weidemann and Gotthold Schneider, Hitler's not particularly welcome envoys to the Chicago World's Fair. Dozens of heads were cracked, 13 rioters arrested...