Foreign News: Woe to the Weak

"This winter no German shall starve!" promised Adolf Hitler last month, and straightway set about raising a Winter Relief Fund of 500,000,000 marks ($175,000,000 Roosevelt), largest in German history. Though contributions are supposed to be "voluntary," resolute Storm Troops have enforced the principle that German workers must contribute 1% of their net wages, salaried employes a little more, housewives a monthly sum which they are required to save by denying their families one hearty Sunday dinner per month, substituting a meal which must not cost over 50 pfennigs per person. Officially the 500,000,000-mark...

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