Foreign News: Supreme & Supremer

The German Supreme Court, emasculated and shoved into the background by Adolf Hitler's creation of a "supremer" People's Court (TIME, May 14, 1934 et seq.), last week was reduced to trying a petty divorce case. The husband, an ardent Nazi, accused his wife of disliking Adolf Hitler. She retorted through her lawyers that disliking Adolf Hitler and saying so to one's own husband is not grounds for divorce, appealed the suit to higher & higher courts which sustained the Nazi husband every time. Last week the German Supreme Court gave the Hitlerish husband...

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