Citing the anti-British press campaign in Germany and the anti-Nazi outcry in England over the Nazi pogroms, Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. said in a London dispatch to the New York Times today that “Anglo-German relations for the moment are more unpleasant than at any time since Chancellor Adolf Hitler came to power.”
“While the anti-British press campaign rages across the Rhine and while Herr Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, goes back to the year 1281 to prove the wickedness of England,” Mr. Kuhn declared, “Mr. Chamberlain is so willing to offend German feelings that he has proposed settling Jewish refugees in the former German colony of Tanganyika. It is a queer sequel to the signing of a declaration in which the heads of the British and German Governments reaffirmed the ‘desire of our two peoples never to go to war with each other again.'”
In a dispatch from Berlin to the New York Herald-Tribune, Ralph W. Barnes cautioned observers abroad against harboring the belief that the Nazi pogroms would have a “profound and permanent effect in alienating any great mass of the inhabitants of this country (Germany) from the regime of Chancellor Adolf Hitler and his aids.”
As long as the German people have “peace, bread and circuses, and much hard work to do, to boot,” Mr. Barnes asserted, “the great bulk of them are not going to be very long or very seriously concerned over the fate of the half million which makes up the Jewish population of greater Germany.”
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