Foreign News: Braun Babies

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The State of Prussia swarms with moppets godfathered by that baby-kissing Marxist, Dr. Otto Braun. For twelve years he was Prussia's Premier. He fled from Germany upon the rise of Adolf Hitler, languishes today with other Socialist refugees in Switzerland. Last week bullnecked General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Prussia's Nazi Premier, decided to do something about the "Braun Babies." Many of their parents, declared General Goring, must have seen by this time the errors of Marxism and become good Nazis. "Provided the parents' political attitude is not objectionable," he announced, "I am ready to take over the obligation of godfatherhood." Generous, this offer gave Braun Babies an inside track in the rush of hausfrauen who continue eager to get their offspring godfathered by Bachelor Hitler, Bachelor Roehm, Chief of Staff of the Storm Troops or other Nazi leaders who, in the main, show a taste for celibacy at surprising variance with their preachments to other Germans for more & better babies. To check the rush of hausfrauen, General Goring announced that—except in the case of Braun Babies—he will godfather only "the ninth living legitimate child or the seventh living son" of non-Jewish parents in good Nazi standing.