"TIMES" COMMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 36, 11 August 1937, Page 11

"TIMES" COMMENT

REPLACEMENT OF MR. EBBUTT

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received August 11, 11.50 a.m.)

RUGBY, August 10. Commenting on the Ebbutt incident, "The Times" says:— "It can be stated with absolute certainty that the termination of the right of the three German journalists to remain in1 London has nothing whatever to do with the way in which they have discharged their professional duties. They were at liberty to praise or to blame, to ex-tfgerate or to belittle, and to interpret acts of the British Government and habits of the British people exactly as seemed right to them. They have clearly been asked to go on account of activities which lay outside their professional activities, and it may become necessary to state precisely what these activities have been." "The Times" also recalls, in regard to one of the Germans, Herr Langen, who came to London from Rome, that his presence in the latter capital was recently adjudged to be undesirable by the Italian Government. ■ Referring to the projected action against their Berlin correspondent "merely on the ground that he has been critical on occasion in his attitude towards the Nazi regime," "The Times" says that if the German Government really decides to take such a step there could be no question of replacing Mr. Ebbutt by. a more amenable correspondent.