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Boycott Crippling Nazi Trade, Envoy Luther Angrily Admits

August 10, 1934
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Dr. Hans Luther, German ambassador to the United States, arriving yesterday on the liner Europa, angrily admitted that the anti-German boycott was hurting German economic development.

It is “unreasonable and without cause,” the ambassador, who is on his way to Washington after a vacation in Germany, declared.

Replying to the formal questions of reporters, he said that he had left a Germany sorrowing for Hindenburg.

To the rather bald question as to the effect of the boycott on German trade, Dr. Luther replied in a less diplomatic fashion. Em-

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