Readers of English Papers Declare German News is Distorted

Today’s London papers carry a letter from a number of their London readers, including several with Jewish names, declaring that a great deal of the news published about Germany is in a distorted form and overlooks the deep significance of the present struggle of national Germany for a new future.

All the papers publishing the letter, comment that there is no doubt that their own correspondents in Germany are better aware of the actual situation there than people dependent on second hand information. The “News-Chronicle” also publishes an editorial stressing the fact that there can be no doubt as to where the main responsibility for the present state of affairs in Germany lies. It declares, that if Hitler and his colleagues are wise, they will heed the advice given them by the American State Department while there is yet time. The “News-Chronicle” obviously refers to the report that the State Department has made representations for the calling off of the boycott.

An editorial in today’s “Daily Telegraph,” referring to the letter signed by the German correspondents, says, that while it is anxious to believe that reports of physical assaults were in some cases exaggerated, there can be no doubt that the Jewish boycott ordered by the Nazi Dictator is surely as great an outrage as any yet recorded. It adds that the expulsion of Jewish judges yesterday, the dismissal of Jewish doctors, and the removal of Jewish employees from their posts, is quite inexcusable in a civilized country. “We judge Hitler by what he exults in doing, not merely by physical outrages,” declared the “Daily Telegraph.”