Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, whom Hitler refered to in his interview recently with foreign press correspondents in Berlin as the only person in the United States who understands his programme, declared to-day in reply to an enquiry addressed to him by Mr. Charles Schwager, the American correspondent of the “Volks-Zeitung” of Germany:
I have never had any communication from Mr. Hitler, directly or indirectly, and I have no sympathy in the world with anything in the nature of intolerance toward nor persecution of a nation or race or people.
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