A crowd of irate Germans brandishing 1,000 mark pre-War banknotes, surged into a Berlin courtroom last week, howled that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the German Reichsbank is a swindler.
While other Germans gibbered outside, Dr. Schacht quietly entered the court by a back door, appeared as the plaintiff in a suit for libel against one Herr Roll, president of the Reichsbank Creditors' Association. Dr. Schacht complained that Herr Roll had libelously defamed him in a public speech as "the hangman of German industry . . . no cheat but a...
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