"SHABBY BAUBLES"
GERMAN DECORATIONS ACCEPTANCE BY AMERICANS OUTSPOKEN STATESMAN (United Press Association! (By t/lectric Telegraph— Copyright) CLEVELAND, Dec. 19. (Received Dec. 19, at 11.45 p.m.) Specifically mentioning Mr Henry Ford and Colonel Lindbergh, the Secretary for the Interior, Mr Harold L. Ickes, criticised the American acceptance of decorations from Germans. He commented: " How can they pretend in accepting shabby baubles from a brutal dictator that they are honouring a great people whom the dictator victimised and degraded?"
In the most outspoken attack on Nazis ever made by an American statesman, Mr Ickes declared that the persecution of Jews has carried Germany back to a period in history when man was unlettered, benighted and bestial. He added: "Jews are regarded as political eunuchs and social outcasts, to be dragged down like mad dogs." Mr Ickes made the charge that a dictator was forced to manufacture dangers in order to strengthen his hold on his people.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23687, 20 December 1938, Page 11
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