GERMAN INSULT.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 382, 13 March 1937, Page 3

GERMAN INSULT.

American Ambassador to Protest. Press Association- —Copyright. Washington, March 11. Mr Cordel Hull, Secretary of Slate, toiday instlructe-d' Mr Dodd, Ambassador at Berlin, to make emphatic comment to the German Government regarding attacks in the official German Press on Mr La Guardia, Mayor of New York, and on American women. Mr Hull explained that the comment, differed from a protest representation, because it does not oblige Germany to reply officially. Mr Hull's 'ac'tii'/n resulted iffroiq letter of protest by the president of lev-'ish women’s organisations which Mr La Guardia was- addressing w-ften he. criticised Herr Hitler. The Nazi Press, including the Angriff. published a statement that the 1200 women attending a meeting of “women of the streets” gathered to be entertained by “a pimp and procurer.” A message on March 5 stated that the United States had apologised orally but officially to the German Embassy against a speech by M~r La Guardia in which he suggested the inclusion of a figure of Herr Hitler in the proposed chamber of horrors at '.he World Fair.