GERMANY: Consul for Consul

Anti-Semitic Nazis, invoking their own version of the Mosaic law—a consul for a consul—last week countered Britain’s expulsion of spyster German Consul General Reinhardt with a demand that England withdraw Consul General Donald St. Clair Gainer from Vienna. Charge against Consul General Gainer was also dabbling in espionage. Fumed a spokesman for the British Consul General: “Sheer nonsense seems a clear case of retaliation.”