PUBLIC REBUKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1940, Page 9

PUBLIC REBUKE.

Congress Members Object To ' Envoy's Speech. U.S. ISOLATIONISTS ANGRY. WASHINGTON, March 22. The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, has telegraphed Mr. J. 11. It. Cromwell, United States .Minister to Canada, stating that liis speech at the Canadian Umpire Club on Tnesdav. in which lie criticised American isolationists, was likely to disturb the relations of the United Stales with other Governments.

Mr. Hull added that Mr. Cromwell had contravened the standing instructions to diplomats and asked him to observe them in future..

Mr. J. H. R. Cromwell. This is the first time in memory that the State Department has publicly rebuked an envoy. 11l the address referred to Mr. Cromwell warned his hearers that Germany i frankly and openly sought to destroy institutions of the social and economic order on which the United States Government was founded. It was. only too apparent that the lives, liberty, livelihood and the very safety of the citizens of all neutral democracies might be dependent upon the outcome of the j present war.

Following the address isolationists in Congress urged the recall of Mr. Cromwell.