An attack upon Alanson B. Houghton, former American Ambassador to Great Britain, who recently returned to the United States after a trip to Germany, is made in the Juedische Rundschau, one of the most influential Jewish newspapers in Germany.
Quoting an interview Mr. Houghton gave the press in New York, in which he declared he found only quietness and peace and did not see any molestation or agitation against the Jews, the paper says:
“Should the interview be correct, then the former Ambassador has rendered no good service to Germany because not a single leading German personality, including members of the Government, even attempt to deny anti-Jewish agitation. The Nazis base their anti-Jewish agitation on arguments emerging from their ‘weltanschauung’ with which, with due respect, we disagree. If the Ambassador supports this ‘weltanschauung’, he is entitled to say so. But when he declared he never heard of anti-Jewish agitation at a time when the entire German press daily speaks of it, then indeed he is a rare ambassador.”
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