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Germany Refuses Regrets for Press Attacks on United States

March 15, 1937
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Germany has declined either to apologize or express regrets for German press attacks on the United States Government, American institutions and American womanhood, the New York Times reported today from Berlin.

Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath gave merely an “explanation” to United States Ambassador William E. Dodd, which a semi-official communique summarized as follows, according to a dispatch by Otto D. Tolischus:

“United States Ambassador Dodd called the attention of the Foreign Office yesterday to the comments of some of the German newspapers on the notorious speech in New York of Mayor LaGuardia. It is assumed in political quarters here that the American diplomat was reminded that the calumny LaGuardia uttered was bound to produce an understandable general resentment in Germany. If the language of some of the German newspapers went, perhaps, beyond desired limits, this was due only to irritation.

“An insult to the American nation was by no means intended. For the rest, the assumption is justified that the American diplomat’s attention was called to the continuous malicious and untrue attitude on the part of the American press respecting German problems.”

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