Foreign News: Contempt

Questioned by suave Jewish lawyers in a Munich court last week, Jew-baiting Adolf Hitler grew hot under his brown collar, egged his brown-shirted henchmen into muttered threats that they would pull the Jewish lawyers' noses.

Fascist Hitler had brought the suit. He charged Jewish Journalist Werner Abel with "libel and perjury" in accusing the German Fascist Party of accepting campaign contributions of 2,500,000 lire from Italian fascists in 1930.

"Didn't you know," softly asked Defense Attorney Kurt Rosenfeld, "that agents of your party negotiated in Italy?"

"What do you mean by 'my party'?" mimicked...

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