Sunday, August 10, 1930

Berlin: Police arrest 400 nazis who are driving around in trucks ripping down German flags on the 11^th anniversary of the founding of the Weimar Republic.  Meanwhile, elsewhere in the city, Gottfried Treviranus, Minister of Occupied Regions, gives a speech which many fear will inflame Poland.  He says Germans are “grieved from the bottom of their hearts for the cut up Vistula regions, this unhealed wound in the eastern flank of Germany.”  He additionally urged his audience to remember “the iniquitous pressure put upon [U.S.] President Wilson to make him agree to the unnatural amputation of East Prussia.”  He calls Germany’s eastern border “an unjust frontier under foreign sovereignty.”  Treviranus has recently joined with Kuno von Westarp and other mavericks from the nationalist party to form a new People’s Conservative Party for the upcoming elections, and his speech was a campaign speech.