HITLER AS PLAINTIFF.

Marlborough Express, Volume LXVIII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 3

HITLER AS PLAINTIFF.

"May a publisher infringe the copyrlght convention from motives of patriotism or national expediency? An interesting case," writes the Bookseller, "in which Chancellor Hitler will be the plaintiff, will shortly be heard before the French Courts. He is suing the publishing house Nouvelles Editions Latines for issuing an unauthorised, unexpurgated translation of his book, '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 person," the Bookseller eontinues, "but by the publisher, Franz Eher, of Munich. Nevertheless, it is'the Nazi chief himself whose interests, both pecuniary and polltical, are concerned. Receipts from the book are his chief source of income, and have made it possible for him to renounce, in the interests of sufferers from the war, his official salary as head of the German Government. He, too, has the chief political interest. in preventing his book from being published in French without the deletion of many passages disparaging and hostile to this country which it eontains."