LAW EVADED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 39, 9 November 1937, Page 11

LAW EVADED

Youne German Lovers Married NOBODY ASKS QUESTIONS LONDON. Dr. -Edward Marx, stoutish, smillag German with a Jewish grandfather, and" fair-haired Fraulein Ilse Gene, dainty pure Aryan, eyaded Gedmany's anti-Jewish rnarriage laws. They were married in the Glasgow offices of the legal firm-of J. Anderson, Dunlop and Co.f by a Germanspeakinglawy'er, Mr. John .Jepburn. Th© sheriff afterwards confirmed tbo ceremony. It was three weeks earlier that tho youfig couple/went to Glasgow from Berlin. Tliey dd their German friends thc were visitihg Mra. Friebe, one of Isle's relatives who lives in Scotland. They took separate lodgings in Bath Street. Glasgow. Twenty-ons days passed — the statutory residentiai period for rnarriage. They talked to no" one,-' and went alghtseeing • like • ©rdinary tourists. Fraulein" Isle wore a sprig of heather Jn her coat when th© youn*; doctor took her to the solicitors' offlce. He said afterwards: "Over in Germany it takes six months and mueh trouble to marry. The two people must produce documentary eridence. They hare ' to show no Jewish blood. * "We ar© not Jews. But in Berlin. my part-ancestry — it might becom© known. Perhaps they will not let us t rry. So we come to Scotland. It is a hollday. "Then we marry. It is incidental. — you say? Nobody asks questions." The doctor, in his sky-blue sports jacket, squeezed his wife's hand. A few minutes earlier she vad whisper•d to him hefdre the Scottish lawyer the words c an old German Ioto song: "True love even to th© grare swear I f * the© with heart and hand." Herr Doctor and Fran Marx ran for the Coronation Scot train at 1.30. On arrival at Eu. ton six and a half hourts later, the bride, freckled like a schoolgirl, stili clutched a bunch of earnations in one hand. The other clutched her husband's arm. „ Sh© blushed prettily when eongratulated. Dr. Marx was boisterous. "It is a romance," he said, shaking hands for the third.time. "Please nnderstand we couid marry in Germany. It is not impossible, no no. Bnt we choose this way. It is better so. We are good Germans. We are not Jews." "But, please — can jron tell me; a good hotel, not too mneh money, hecause what do you say, we are broken. You understand?" When Frau Marx was asked when. they were returning to Germany her blue eyes lost their sparkle. Fingers closed again on her husban's arm. "We go to-morrow night," she aaid. Under Nazi law a pure Aryan may marry a German with no more than one German grandparent if documentary evidence is flrst produced.