REBUKE FOR MAGISTRATE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 247, 16 September 1935, Page 7

REBUKE FOR MAGISTRATE.

OPINION OF NAZIS. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. The State Department hopes that the Bremen incident is finally closed as Mr Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, invited Herr Leitner, counsellor at the German Embassy, to bis office and there orally rebuked the magistrate, Mr Brodsky, for his statements in court.

Mr Hull pointed out that they in no way reflected the opinion of the American Government.

It is understood that Herr Leitner will forward the text of the statement to Berlin.

Mr Louis Brodsky was the magistrate who on September 6 discharged five men alleged to have been among those taking part in the riot on the liner Bremen at the New York docks. Mr Brodsky, who is of the Jewish faith, bitterly attacked tile Hitler regime and referred to tlie steamer Bremen as “a pirate ship with the black flag of piracy proudly flying aloft.” In concluding liis opinion, he declared that the emblem stood for a “revolt against civilisation; in brief, if I may borrow a biological concept, an atavistic throw-back to the pre-medi-aeval, if not barbaric, social and political conditions.”