GERMAN PROTEST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 21, 23 December 1938, Page 7

GERMAN PROTEST.

MR ICKES’S SPEECH. Received December 23, 10.10 a.in. BERLIN, Dec. 22. Germany has presented a sharp Note of protest to the United States against the speech by the Secretary of the Interior (Air H. L. Ickes) on Decembei 18, alleging that he used insulting and coarse remarks. Specifically 7 mentioning Mr Henry Ford and Colonel C. A. Lindbergh Mr Ickes criticised the aceptance by Americans of decorations from Germans. “How can they pretend, in accepting shabby baubles from a brutal dictator, that tliey are honouring a great people whom a dictator has victimised and degraded?” In the most outspoken attack on the Nazis ever made by an American statesman, Mr Ickes declared that her persecution of the Jews had carried Germany back to the period in history when man was unlettered, benighted, and bestial. He added that Jews in Germany were regarded as political eunuchs and social outcasts to be dragged down like mad dogs. Mr lekes made the charge that a dictator was forced to manufacture dangers in order to strengthen his hold on the people.