A Test Case for Germany There are signs that the
present rulers of Germany pay some regard to Hellish opinion when it is expressed with reason and moderation. * If that is so, and if -they have any desire to cultivate normal relations with this country, they will assert themselves even now against that vilest of publications, Herr Julius Streicher's Stunner. Week after week this Nuremberg organ, and other' papers under the same control, have protided perpetual incitement to new outrages against the- Jews, but the lowest depths of foulness are touched in the now notorious "ritual murder" number of Der Stunner, issued in the early part of this month. The Government -is said to have tried to prevent the export of this loathsome sheet, with its pictures of Jews drinking human blood---- in one case sucking it from a newly-nnirdered child's corpse—and with -good reason, but many copies have reached this- country. Many convinced Nazis view such journalistic bestiality with undisguised disgust, but a GoVernment• which, while it suppresses old-established and respected papers -for the least word of criticism of the regime, permits the continued issue of this brutal, lying and indecent propaganda will stand without defence at the bar of civilization. As it is Dr. Goebbels, Minister for Enlightenment, has come very near condoning Herr Streicher's outrages.
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