“It is possible sometimes to exaggerate the importance of these things,” said the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, president of the council in the coalition cabinet, in discussing British and German relations over the German-Jewish question for the House of Commons today. That, according to Mr. Baldwin, was why the British government made no reply to the German government’s protest after Sir John Simon, Minister of Foreign Relations, condemned the German-Jewish policy in the House of Commons.
The German government took exception to Sir John’s speech because he associated himself with other speakers sympathetic to the Jews after a parliamentary debate on the Jewish position in Germany.
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