Dr. Hans Luther Refuses to Answer Queries on Arrival As Hitler’s Envoy

representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency asked him.

A storm of other questions on the Hitler regime in Germany was hurled at the Ambassador. Aggravated, he began to shout angrily, saying that he does not care to talk. He grabbed his hat and began to run.

OUT THROUGH BACK DOOR

“Are you afraid of hostile Jewish demonstrations?” the representative of The Times asked Dr. Luther. He looked angrily at him and did not answer. He was then hurried away through the back door of the room and taken aboard the special cutter which was waiting for him at Quarantine. But this was not the Macon, which the City of New York usually supplies to honor arriving distinguished guests. It was a little motor boat of the kind used by gentlemen who prefer to avoid, rather than attract attention.

A German official then handed out to the newspapermen a prepared statement which reads:

“Diplomatic etiquette preventing foreign diplomats from touching upon political questions before having presented their credentials to the head of the State, I regret to have to refrain for the moment from discussing the political problems. But nothing prevents me from expressing my sincere gratification that I have arrived in the country where I am to take up my new duties. For years it was one of my fondest wishes to pay a visit to the great country which ever, since my college days, has fascinated me in a particular degree and with whose representatives, official and non-official, I have had many dealings at international conferences abroad and in public and private life at home, as Secretary of the Treasury, as Chancellor of the Reich and as President of the Reichsbank.

HOPES TO STAY FOR YEARS

“However, although I was fortunate enough to utilize a long furlough in 1926 for an extended tour through the republics of South America, I never had a chance, various invitations from my American friends to see the United States notwithstanding. Now a turn in the political affairs of my country brings me here not merely as a visitor for a rapid cross-country journey but as Germany’s official spokesman who will take up his residence and hopes to stay in this country for many years to come.

“At the moment of my arrival, it cannot be my task, to make an ample statement on the conditions in Germany. I only wish to emphasize that the outward life there is just as normal and orderly as could be desired and was, in fact, very little upset by the events of the last weeks whilst the inner political life of the nation has undergone a profound change. For what recently happened there was not merely a change of government as such changes have occurred repeatedly since 1919 and as they periodically occur in every country. No, it was a complete reversal of our national life, a revolution touching at the very foundations of my country. We saw this spring a resurrection of the German nation which by a large majority recently conferred upon the present national government the mandate to work out Germany’s salvation.”