The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-19
'REACT|ONARY'
ELEMENTS
ASSA|LED
"Iewish Arrogance" Radical
Leaders Objects of New Drive
g. Directed by War Office
BY PIERRE J. HUSS
international News Service

international News Service
BERLIN, July 19.-War to the
hilt against Communists, reac-
tionaries, "politically-minded
churchmen" and Jews was agreed
upon today at an important con-
ference Of high Maxi leaders in
Berlin.
On the heels Of Premier Her.
mann Wilhelm Goering's cam
paign against Catholic and Prot
estants allegedly conducting "a
subversive political mpaign
against the state" and the
launching of q movement appar.
emily designed to revive the
Ghetto Of the Middle Ages, the
Nazis decided to clean out re-
dictionaries and dampen growing
Jewish arrogance"
Police Head Ousted
The council Of war was called
by Paul Joseph Goebbels, anti
Semitic minister Of propaganda,
and attended by Franz Goerlitzer,
acting Nazi party chieftatn in Der.
lin, Ludwig INLAND, district storm
troop leader, and Count Wolf Won
Hendorf, powerful brown shirt ex-
ecutive and one Of Chancellor Hit
1er'S earliest lieutenantS.
Their first action was to GUST
Police President Won Levtzlow Of
Berlin, seemingly because he failed
to use sufficiently strong measures
in upholding the Nazi State
against religious and political
''saboteurs."
Sweeping Cleanup Pledged
Count Won Helldorf was ap-
pointed to succeed him. He &C.
knowledged the honor with this
pledge:
"A sweeping cleanup Of Ger.
many's capital is necessary.
Members Of the Na1i party, DO
hce and storm troopers must CO.
operate"
Communists, reactiOnaries,
and all subverSive anti-state ele-
ments must be cleaned out. To-
gether with this, we must dam
pen growing Jewish arrogance"
In the light Of the anti-semitiC
campaign which has swept Berlin
with new force under the editorial
guidance of julius Streicher, arch
priest of anti-semitiSm in Munich
Won Helldorf'S selection was re
garded as master stroke.
Jailed Under Republic
In 1882 he was sentenced to
six months in prison on charges
OF instigating the first anti-Jew.
ish riots in Berlin since the
World War. That was in the days
Of the republic, before Hitler
came to power.
Another anti Semitic, Hans
Kerrl, was placed in charge of
all matters dealing with church
relationship.
Previously his duties had been
handled by the Ministries of Edu.
cation and Interior.
Coincident with the war coun.
Gill; various new measures against
Jews, Catholics and ProteStantS
were reported from various cities.
The police president of Stettin
and the governor of the province
Of Pomerania issued orders pro
h1biting Catholic and Protestant
youth organizations in the Stettin,
Koellin and Schneidemuhl dis.
trictS from wearing uniforms or
parading publicly with eccleSiaS-
teal banners.
Girls Blacklisted
Newspaper in Saxony today dis.
played prominently q 'black list
o: the is "so-called Aryan girls
whose Jewish friends recently were
sent to a concentration camp at
Saxonburg.
At Oldendorf, in Hassen, a 80.
year-old Jewish cattle dealer, Julius
Mannheimer, was arrested and i'm
priSoned at Hamelin on charges
of assaulting a 14-year-old Aryan
girl. Mannheimer denied the
charge, but it was stated eXamina'
ton Of the girl proved the charges
correct.
VATICAN CITY, July 10
Q.N.SO.-The Vatican is hopeful
Of peaceful solution Of the new
church crisis in Germany, it was
stated here today.
The orders issued by Premier
Goering for prosecution Of clergy
men allegedly participating in po-
litical affairs caused little sur
prise here.
A Vatican spokesman declared
Chancellor Hitler had appointed
q special minister to handle re-