Last night’s anti-Nazi rally at the Madison Square Garden focussed interest anew on the Hitler government which is completing its fourth year in power, and brought reactions from various points.
Mayor LaGuardia, a surprise speaker at the meeting, reaffirmed his attack on Hitler and called him, “satisfaktionsfaehig” — too low to seek satisfaction from — to the cheers of 20,000 spectators. General Hugh S. Johnson backed the Mayor’s previous attack on Hitler.
In Berlin, the Nazi apparently backed down on a demand that President Roosevelt “intervene energetically” to prevent anti-Nazi “insults.” The demand was contained in the first edition of Der Angriff but dropped from all others. No other Nazi paper mentioned the rally.
German embassy officials in Washington, meanwhile, indicated they considered LaGuardia’s latest attack as an effort to keep alive the controversy stirred by previous criticism. They intimated they would await instructions from Berlin before taking any action.
In London, mounting resentment against the Nazis caused a crowd of students to jostle German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop, according to the Havas News Agency. The demonstration occurred while he was entering the Institute for Historical Research.
The local Nazis faced a new court threat when Major Julius Hochfelder counsel for the German-American League for Culture, obtained in York-ville Magistrates’ Court, a summons against Fritz Kuhn, head of the Amerika-Deutscher Bund, charging him with violating State laws by publishing the Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter without filing a declaration of purposes.
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