Saturday, January 11, 2014

Saturday, 11 January 1930

Germany:  

Robert Ley, southern Rhineland party leader for the national socialist (nazi) party and editor of the anti-Semitic newspaper Westdeutsche Beobachter, loses an appeal to the German Supreme Court on his conviction of having defamed the Jewish faith by asserting that the Talmud, one of Judaism’s central texts, prescribes ritual murder for its adherents. 




The Hague:  

Tensions rise at the Second Reparations conference.  The German delegation consistently asserts the right to a moratorium on war debt payment whenever Germany needs it for its own financial health.  Additionally, the delegates say they cannot give final approval to Hague proposals without consulting the Reichsbank Board --  by which they are understood to mean Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht, who is due to arrive at the conference soon and whose presence, it is feared, will disrupt the proceedings.  Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, scolds the Germans to stop the “needless delays” and get to work.  

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