Evening star., 1933-04-04
BOYCOTT RENEWAL
TOMORROW IS OFF
'Atrocity Lie Factory Charge
of Nazi Editors Incenses
U. S. Consulate.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 4-The government
announced today that the anti-Semitic
boycott will not be resumed tomorrow.
The Nazi party, which called the
one-day boycott last Saturday, re-
serves the right. however, to reinstate
the boycott in the event the "atrocity
campaign" is resumed abroad
American officials in Berlin were dis
turbed over an allegation by the "Pang-
erman Press Service" edited by two
Nazis, that "an atrocity lie factory has
been set up in the American consulate
general"
The service claims that the American
consulate, like the Polish, collects ac-
cusations of Eastern Jews against Nazis
George s. Messersmith, United States
consul general, said:
1--WE strongly resent these unwarranted
implications and will by proper repre-
sentations insist on immediate stoppage
Affidavits Taken.
Naturally. during the past days the
consulate has received, as Is its duty,
American citizens who complained of
mistreatment. Their affidavits were
taken and through the foreign Office
presented to the police presidency.
1T was also our duty to receive appli-
cations from foreigners for visas.
Whenever they tried to tell us their
stories of personal hardship we politely
declined to entertain these on the
grounds this is not our business"
A protest by the Russian Ambassador
against recent raids on Offices of the
Soviet trade delegation in Berlin and
government with a statement that it
would brook no interference in this
affair.
This statement was issued after re-
ports had circulated that Maxim
Litvinoff, Russian foreign commissar,
had filed similar protest with the
German Ambassador at Moscow
Despite the announcement that the
anti-Jewish boycott will not be re-
sumed on Wednesday, there were in
dications that commercial discrimina-
| ton against Jews will continue. It
was announced at the Nazi Boycott
| Committee headquarters that "in the
near future all German stores will be
supplied with big placards identifying
them as such"
From the same source came word
| that creation Of National Racial
Bureau" is a possibility in the near fu-
turc.
A Jewish quarter in the eastern Sec
ton of the city inhabited by poorer
classes was raided today by large
police force, assisted by Nazi auxiliarieS
| Cfroofc frio &C
were halted while houses were searched
| for weapons and papers.
Worshipers leaving synagogueS were
searched and those not carrying double
Identification cards were arrested.
| Some printed matter and few
weapons were confiscated.
Protestant Nazis Meet.
Protestant Nazis assembled in a ma
tional convention here today celebrated
the triumph of the Nationalist revolu-
ton led by Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
Race purity was declared to be the
guiding principle of the new organiza-
ton. known as the German Christian
Movement"
Beginning today. all persons desiring
to leave Germany were required to OBJ
tain permission of the police. Reports
Jews
into nearby countries, carrying away
money and other possessions, led to the
action. A considerable sum Of money
was reported taken from one group.
ConcIave Concluded.
The Protestant Nazis, concluding a
two-day conclave, were told equality for
Jews was the promise of future world
but was not to be expected In Germany
Rev. Mr.. Peter, one of the principal
speakers, said st. Paul's epistle to the
Romans about the equality of the Jew
and the Greek applied to things spirit
ual and world beyond but not to this
world, where race purity was or
dained by God.
Iron crosses were pinned on many OF
the clergymen.
A new ruling in the schools through
out Germany banned the distribution of
copies of the German constitution, the
symbol of the now dead republic, to
! graduating students. Hereafter they
will be presented booklet explaining
the significance of the restrictions i'm
posed on Germany in the Versailles
treaty.