Dr. Hans Luther, German Ambassador, was closely guarded on his official visit to the Nazi training ship Karlsruhe, the local police taking no chances after anti-Hitler demonstrations of the day before when nineteen were arrested, including several Harvard and M. I. T. students.
At that time mounted and foot police and plainclothesmen battled more than 200 Communists, students and other anti-Fascist-demonstrators who stormed the Charlestown Navy Yard where the Karlsruhe is docked.
During the evening police were posted about the Copley-Plaza Hotel, where more than 1,000 men and women paid a tumultous tribute to Hitler as the man who “had saved Germany from political and economic chaos,” at a reception and banquet tendered the officers and crew of the cruiser. The affair was under the auspices of the Associated German Societies of Massachusetts and the Legion of German and Austrian War Veterans.
Mayor Frederick W. Mansfield was represented by Charles E. Ware Jr. No one, however, spoke for the Commonwealth.
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