Supreme Cartoon

Defiance blazed last week between the two cabinets at Berlin, the Prussian State Cabinet and the German Federal Cabinet.

When they had looked at a cartoon in Berlin's Socialist Vorwaerts and read an article in Cologne's Catholic Volkzeitung the new German Cabinet of Chancellor Franz von Papen made formal demand upon the Prussian Government to punish both papers by suspending them for five days.

The Socialist cartoon showed brown-shirted Fascists being paid out of the Federal Treasury, which they are not. The Catholic article attacked Catholic Chancellor von Papen for his stand at Lausanne. Decision as to whether to suppress the newspapers was up to Prussian Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Karl Severing, taciturn Socialist, famed for ruthless police methods to keep order in Berlin.

Socialist Severing soon announced that the Socialist cartoon was not sufficiently "coarse" to merit suppression, opined that the Catholic article was "inspired by purely patriotic motives." He flatly refused to punish either newspaper, rushed the dispute to the German Supreme Court at Leipzig. The Court at once decided that the Socialist Vorwaerts must be suspended for five days, pondered whether to suspend the Catholic Volkzeitung.

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