Germany has curtly told the League of Nations, in effect, to mind its own business, in answer to the letter of James G. McDonald calling for League intercession with Germany in behalf of persecuted minorities.
After suppressing news of the letter for nearly a week, the official German news bureau sent out a brief dispatch from Geneva, accompanied with official commentary for release today bidding the League take care of national and religious minorities in states which are League members.
The commentary says in part:
“Because Germany has finally attempted to reach an internal balance in relation to abuses and excessive alien influences, certain people in certain parts of the world feel themselves called upon to criticize Germany and offer her advice, while the same people have been silent and continue silent regarding all persecutions of Germans definitely forbidden by international undertakings…
“In Germany we are of the opinion that the League has every reason to worry first about the manner in which States in the League deal with minorities and confessions within her borders before it feels justified in troubling itself about the means whereby Germany has carried on the internal reconstruction of her people on the basis of her experience gained from her material and moral collapse.”
Nazi newspaper comment on the letter was devoted mostly to charging that Mr. McDonald was prejudiced for the Jews and holding he resigned as League High Commissioner for Refugees because he became disgusted with the refugees.
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