GERMANY: Good-by to Lemons

In Nurnberg last week the Frankische Tageszeitung, a prominent Nazi organ, announced:

"Too much of the nation's wealth is rolling across our frontiers for foreign-grown products. The time has come to take leave of that saffron-hued old sweetheart, the lemon. She is no longer needed, for Germany has a previous substitute in its indigenous rhubarb. We have been neglecting it up to now. but it shall come into its own. It is a blood purge and a curative remedy of genuine German quality. Our lemons, then, shall be atoned with German rhubarb....

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