The Nazis at Nuremberg The opening sessions. of the National
Socialist Party's annual conference at Nuremberg—the home of that sinister figure Herr Julius Streicher—have been marked appropriately by new denunciations of the Jews, with whom are coupled the so-called political Roman Catholics and " certain elements of the bourgeoisie," the latter consisting no doubt mainly of the intellectuals who • have been incapable of concealing completely .the extent to which all their feelings of decency have been outraged by the crude excesses of a Streicher and the provocative demagogy of a Goebbels. For the Jews life, almost intoler- . able as it is, will be made harder still. They are to be a segregated race, with their own schools, the professions mainly closed to them, and condemned by a general boycott to trade with one another and not with non- Semites. The Churches are to be met with pressure, not with peace. In that field a new crisis may be looked for . when the Confessional Synod meets next week, though it remains to be seen how far its less resolute personalities will be ready to go with leaders like Dr. Niemoller. The strength of the various dissident elements in Germany is difficult to estimate. It is probably increasing slowly, but not enough to cause the Government any serious. anxiety as yet. Dr. Schacht and his school may present a • more formidable problem.
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