HITLER AS PLAINTIFF

Evening Star, Issue 21748, 16 June 1934, Page 21

HITLER AS PLAINTIFF

“ May a publisher infringe the copyright convention from motives of patriotism or national expediency? An interesting case,” writes the ‘ Book seller,” “in which Chancellor Hitler will be tbe plaintiff, will shortly be heard before the French courts He is suing the publishing house Nouvelles Editions Latines for issuing an unauthorised, uuexpurgated translation of his hook, ‘My Fight.’ Already he has obtained a provisional order for the sequestration of the copies not yet put into circulation. The action is not, of course, taken by Herr Hitler in per son,” the ‘ Bookseller ’ continues. “ but by the publishers, Franz Eher. of Munich. Nevertheless it is the Nazi chief himself whose interests, both pecuniary and political, are concerned. Receipts from the book are his chiel source of income, and have made it possible for him to renounce, in the in torests of sufferers from tbe war, his official salary as head of the German Government. He, too, has the chiei political interest in preventing his book from being published in French without the deletion of the many passages disparaging and hostile to this country which it contains.”