Evening star., 1933-03-25
Citizens Won't Be Punished
Merely for Being Jews,
Minister Asserts.
HITLER LEADER NETTLED.
BY UNFAv0RABLE PRESS
Excesses in Germany Attributed
Provocators in Brown Shirts.
Claims Order Is Restored.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 25.-Persecution of
any man simply because he is q Jew
will not be tolerated, said Capt. Herman
Goering. minister without portfolio, in
an impassionated address today to for
eign correspondents in which he
pleaded for fairness IN estimating tho
German situation.
He also expressed the opinion that
Jews and Socialists abroad were rem
dering their German friends . poor
service by making unfavorable reports
on German conditions or by holding
protest mass meetings.
Every German" he said, Smiles
when he learns that on next Monday
prayer meetings will be held in
America"
While admitting excesses during the
first days Of the German revolution,
he claimed the government had adopt
ed most stringent measures, including
the death penalty, for further trans
gressions. +..
mot One Fingernail."
The many excesses committed during
the first days Of the national revolu-
ton, he said, must be attributed to
provocations in brown shirts. CThe
brown shirt Is q part Of the uniform
Of the Mani party.),
There Is not one person In all Ger
many from whom even one fingernail
has been chopped off," the minister
declared.
1T is true that some storm troopers
have terribly beaten up this one or
that one, but you must remember the
terrible bitterness that has prevailed
among men who have been persecuted
for 10 years. It Is humanity under
standable If they took justice in their
own hands.
1.-THE world must be thankful to us,
however, that we have established
order 20 quickly. ,.
IT will not ever stand for prosecuting
man simply because he y . Jew"
Travellers to h Safe. =, 81.
He continued:
"The strictest order also has been
issued to all nationalistic organisations
that under no circumstances are they
to molest foreigners.
Travellers from elsewhere coming
here this Summer will enjoy the full
est freedom and witness q nation proud
Of its resurrection.
Jewish business men can continue
unhindered You who know how Bit
terly anti-Semitic many Of our people
are can realize what this means"
Capt. Goering said he knew what was
being telephoned and cabled, yet he
opposed establishing q censorship.
He claimed the excuses of the pres
ent revolution were mild compared with
those Of 1918 and 1919.
Recalls italian Stories.
He was visibly nettled over hostility
to the German revolution cropping up
In part Of the world press.
First one IS alarmed, then angered,
and finally completely nonplussed by
reading what is written about u.s." he
said. But, on comparison with an
other period, namely May, 1922, one
sees exactly the same kind of stories
written about us then appeared con-
corning the Fascist revolution in Italy"
While admitting on the one hand
that some Jewish shops were compelled
by the Nationalistic elements to close
temporarily or even to display signs
reading Buy only In Gentle stores"
yet on the other hand, he said, storm
troopers had protected many depart
ments stores and other stores against
violence and enabled them to reopen.
TO proclaim abroad that Judah de-
clared war on Germany" the minister
continued, may result in the German
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