“MONEYED NOBILITY”

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1934, Page 5

“MONEYED NOBILITY”

GERMAN PAPER’S ATTACK.

London, May 21.

The violently pan-German “Deutsche Zeitung” -recently delivered a broadside attack on the actions of the German nobility, which do not strictly measure up to its conceptions. It especially singles out the so-called financial and industrial nobility, naming Prince Donpersmarck, t'he Rothschilds, Schwabachs, Oppenheimers and Frielanders as outstanding examples of “moneyed nobilKing of Prussia,” continues the “Deutsche Zeitung,” who elevated the moneyed interests to the nobility was never more venomously or bitterly, assailed than by just this very clique.” The newspaper then proceeds to accuse the neo-nobility created by Wilhelm 11. with filling its coffers at a time when the real nobility was battling its way through mire, blood and death at the front.

“It is a crime,” says this newspaper, “to confer nobility on business men. The true nobleman’s coat-of-arms hangs in Valhalla and not in the quarters of money changers, the scene of barter and haggling.”