GERMANY PROTESTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 66, 19 March 1937, Page 7

GERMANY PROTESTS

DENUNCIATION OF HITLER EXCEPTION TAKEN TO WORDS OF MR. LA GUARDIA. SECRETARY OF STATE'S REPLY. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) Received March 18, 9 p.m. WASHINGTON, March 17. The German Ambassador, Baron von Luther, has verbally protested to Mr. Cordell Hull (Secretary of State) concerning Mr. La Guardia’s remarks made on March 16. Mr. Hull expressed his regrets and, after a telephone conversation with Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Hull issued this statement: “I, personally, am hopeful that all participating in a controversy marked by bitter and vituperative utterances, here and in Germany, will soon reach a conclusion that it will be in the best interests of both countries to find other subjects that can be discussed more temperately."

A cable from New York published in Wednesday’s "Chronicle” stated that a meeting sponsored by Jewish organisations was held at Madison Square Garden. Its purpose was to assail Nazism. Mr. La Guardia, Mayor of New York, appeared unexpectedly at the meeting and told the audience to pay no attention to anything Herr Hitler says. He ended his remarks with a German phrase which, later, he told reporters meant ‘‘Hitler can’t take it!” CHURCH AND NAZISM MANIFESTO OF WARNING BERLIN, March 17. The confessional churches in Saxony have issued a manifesto bluntly warning members to ward off the onslaught of Nazism, which persecutes professing Christians. Those attending church should not be deceived by those describing the Old Testament as a Jewish book. They must decide whether God’s Word or the ambiguous speeches of those falsifying it arc to be proclaimed in the churches.