The Nazis' Progress The situation in Germany is in some
respects less abnormal. The drastic Prussian decree against the Jews, whereby a German citizen, any one of whose four grandparents was a Jew was to be debarred from practice in most of the learned professions, notably the law and medicine, has been considerably modified by an ordinance of the Reich, with the result that though thousands of Jewish professional men throughout Germany will find themselves faced with starvation, the numbers condemned to that fate are less than at first seemed probable. (That is on the assumption that the Reich ordinance is carried out. There arc already disturbing indications that it may not b'.) Lord Reading has taken the only possible course in resigning his position as a joint president of the Anglo-German Association. An unpleasant impression is left by the officious and unwi.r- rantable action of some of the London police in demanding the withdrawal from shop windows of notices calling for a boycott of German goods, but the Home Secretary was compelled to state in the House of Commons on Monday that anyone was free to put up such notices if he chose. Demonstrations of protest against the treatment of Jews in Germany arc continuing intelligibly enough in various countries, for even the modified action now authorized by the Heidi ordinance is an example of racial legislation from which the reputation of Germany will take long to recover.
