In Germany, the “Law for Literary Leaders” dictated the content of what could now be written. A section of the law excluded Jews from the press, while another required all editors to be Aryans. The Schriftleitergesetz (Editorial Control Law) took effect in Germany, placing the press under the control of the government. All newspaper and magazine editors had to be members of the new “Reich League of the German Press”, which banned non-Aryans as well as people married to non-Aryans.
William Ormsby-Gore of Great Britain attacks the Nazis’ view on race at the League of Nations Assembly Commission, saying the mixture of races “holds the British Empire together.”
Konrad Henlein, leader of the Student National Socialist Party in Czechoslovakia, dissolves the party because he thinks the government will ban it.
The NRA says there must be no exceptions to the ban on child labor and says if the child’s earnings are vital to the family, it will receive relief.
The Bonus movement is dead, but the American Legion asks Congress for a $50 million per year payment to World War veterans instead.
Assistant Attorney General Pat Malloy quits his job, charging that Attorney General Homer Cummings failed to prosecute a financier on tax evasion and failed to back Malloy’s speech to the American Bar Association in August.
The first issue of Esquire magazine is published.
There is talk of rebuilding the town of Tampico, Mexico, which was devastated by hurricanes. The city is still three-quarters covered with water, and residents want to rebuild on higher ground.
Photograph: A pedestrian stops to read an issue of the antisemitic newspaper Der Stuermer (The Attacker) in a Berlin display box. Der Stuermer was advertised in showcase displays near bus stops, busy streets, parks, and factory canteens throughout Germany. Der Stuermer served as a mouthpiece for Nazi ideology and its editor was a close associate of Hitler. Berlin, Germany, probably 1930s. The Editors Law (Schriftleitergesetz) forbids non-“Aryans” to work in journalism from this date in 1933.
The German Propaganda Ministry (through its Reich Press Chamber) assumed control over the Reich Association of the German Press, the guild which regulated entry into the profession. Under the new Editors Law, the association kept registries of “racially pure” editors and journalists, and excluded Jews and those married to Jews from the profession. Propaganda Ministry officials expected editors and journalists, who had to register with the Reich Press Chamber to work in the field, to follow mandates and specific instructions handed down by the ministry. In paragraph 14 of the law, the regime required editors to omit from publication anything “calculated to weaken the strength of the Reich abroad or at home.”
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