Bernard F. Ridder, publisher of the New York Staats-Zeitung, who has just returned from a visit in Germany, yesterday denied that he had declared to Chancellor Hitler that “there is no absolute freedom of the press in American”. He said that his own Berlin correspondent mis-quoted him.
Mr. Ridder, who termed Adolf Hitler a “fanatic” in an interview here, foresaw a dimunition of racial and religious discrimination in Germany. Anti-Jewish activities carried on by the Nazi party were said to have created no jobs for other Germans, Ridder said, thus defeating one of the purposes of the operations. Restrictions against Jews in business and professional life have already begun to be lifted, the publisher related.
Mr. Ridder declared that Hitler does not want war and that the chancellor is so popular in Germany that, were another vote to be taken, he would be elected by from eighty to ninety percent of the voters.
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