Foreign News: Beer v. Banana Splits

Under iron-willed Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht's system of keeping the German mark theoretically on gold, Germans are virtually cooped up in Germany by the extreme difficulty of getting permission to take out even a modicum of money when they want to go abroad. Last week 86 privileged Nazi tourists arrived in Manhattan aboard the S. S. Stuttgart with spending money of $20 each, supposed to last five days. Said sturdy Franz Luppe, superintendent of a Dessau brewery, "Some of my countrymen are foolish enough to waste their money on banana splits!"

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