GERMAN PROTEST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 82, Issue 305, 24 December 1938, Page 7

GERMAN PROTEST

AMERICAN MINISTER’S SPEECH BERLIN, Dec. 22. Germanv has presented a sharp note of protest to the United States against the speech of the Secretary of the Interior, Mr. H. L. Ickes, alleging that he used insulting and coarse remarks. Specially mentioning Mr. Henry Ford and Colonel Charles Lindbergh, Mr. Ickes had criticised the acceptance by Americans 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 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. Ickes made the charge that a dictator v as forced to manufacture to strengthen his hold on the people. PROTEST REJECTED U.S.A. DEPARTMENT’S ACT PRESS ATTACKS CRITICISED WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. The State Department emphatically rejected the German protest against the address by Senator Ickes on December 19, and also criticised German Press attacks against President Roosevelt’s Cabinet. It states that Senator Ickes voiced the feelings of an overwhelming majority. COUCHED IN STRONG TERMS Received Dec. 23, 7.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. The acting-Secretary of State, Mr. Welles, told the German Charge d’Affaires that the demand for an apology by Mr. Ickes came with singularly ill grace from a Government which so persistently had permitted a controlled press to make an attack on American leaders, including Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt and members of the present Cabinet. The statement was couched in strong, uncompromising terms, which the United States rarely uses in diplomatic discussions with a friendly Government. Mr. Welles said that Germany must have known that the recent policy pursued by Germany has shocked ana confounded public opinion x in the United States more profoundly than anything for a decade. MASS EMIGRATION MOTION IN POLISH PARLIAMENT. ANTI-JEWISH CAMPAIGN. Received Dec. 23, 5.5 p.m. WARSAW, Dec. 22. Coincident with the flaring up of the anti-Jewish campaign, the National Unity camp, which dominates the new Parilament, has drawn up a motion for Parliament demanding the mass emigration of Jews. LAW FACULTIES PROTEST TREATMENT OF GERMAN JEWS. Received Dec. 23, 6.10 p.m. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 22. One hundred law faculties throughout the world, including Australian, Canadian and South Africa, have publicly protested against the treatment of German Jews.