Authorities today ordered the expulsion from Austria of G.E.R. Gedye, correspondent of the London daily Telegraph and Morning Post and of the New York Times.
five days ago an order for his expulsion issued two days previously was withdrawn. The new order was announced to foreign correspondents summoned to a meeting in the Parliament Building by Herr de La Trobe, chief of the German Press Propaganda Bureau, now on duty here.
herr Trobe charged that Gedye’s “activity was harmful to the good relations of Germany with other countries.” Addressing the newspapermen, the Nazi official made a distinction between correspondents who do their work in an objective manner, telling the truth as they see it or conceive it to be, and those who send “tendentious” reports harmful to the good relations among states.
No Government, and Germany less than any other, could remain indifferent to such acts, he declared. He flatly stated that steps would be taken against any newspapermen held to fall into the second category.
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