CALLED HOME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1938, Page 5

CALLED HOME

AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY DIPLOMATIC BREAK POSSIBLE CONSULTATION REGARDING TREATMENT OF JEWS TALK OF “FORCING SHOT” ON BRITAIN By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, November 15. The State Department announced today that it was summoning the United States Ambassador, Mr Wilson, home from Berlin immediately for consultations concerning Germany’s anti-Semi-tic campaign. A complete re-examina-tion of German-American relations is simultaneously reported, without confirmation, to be likely. President Roosevelt will issue a statement tomorrow dealing with Germany’s treatment of Jews and urging the Reich to desist. Officials denied today that Mr Wilson’s recall was the first step in a diplomatic breach, but the United Press Association learned on high authority that Mr Wilson’s stay in America will be prolonged. It is improbable that he will return unless Herr Hitler recognizes that the Jewish question is one requiring humanitarian consideration. The “New York Times’s” Washington correspondent stated: “Technically it was not a recall, but actually it carried just that implication. A severance of diplomatic relations is not out of the picture as a possibility. It is the first time since the Great War that an ambassador to a major Power has been ordered home under circumstances suggesting a recall.” The United Press quotes one Washington official as saying: “Mr Wilson’s return is intended as a forcing shot on Britain, which, after the Munich conference, has been approaching toward collaboration with Germany. “In the event of a showdown between Germany and America, Britain, because of her dependence on American supplies' and markets, would be forced to align with the United States.” There is some conjecture whether President Roosevelt might not be considering a proposal for the unreserved immigration of German Jews as was suggested in many quarters, specially by the “New York Times’s” correspondent, who is known currently to have President Roosevelt’s ear more than his contemporaries. The Secretary of the Interior, Mr Ickes, in a nation-wide, broadcast today, characterized the Nazi antiSemitic programme as an assault against civilisation. He warned Germany that no nation could live unto itself alone. Mr Ickes’s broadcast was one of six delivered in rapid succession by American /notables ,including ex-President Hoover, Governor Landon, Senator 'King, the president of a Catholic University and a Methodist bishop. Senator King asserted: “Personally I would be very glad to see our Government break off diplomatic relations with Germany. Governor Landon declared: “There is a real danger of a growth of intolerance in America. Unchecked mass brutality is contagious. A blood and thunder age makes no distinction in its victims. In the end it disrupts all society.” SERIOUS VIEW TAKEN PLANS FOR APPEASEMENT WRECKED, MODERATE VOICES IN GERMANY SILENCED NEW YORK, November 15. The “New York Times” in a leader, says that the instructions to the Ambassador to return reveal how seriously the Government regards the present course of events in Germany. It is evident that last week’s day of terror in Germany signified more than an unleashing of Nazi ferocity. All moderate voices in Germany are silenced. Not only have the nonNazis been eliminated from the Government, but the super-Nazis are on top. Apparently nobody remains in the seat of authority who knows or cares what the world thinks or for the fate of the maturing plans for an understanding with France and Britain. This is more than anti-Semitism. It is a mood and a method of a violent stage of revolution. Europe can expect no real appeasement so long as this unappeasable force wrecks plans for international appeasement. BESTIAL ATTACKS DENOUNCED BY NEW YORK ALDERMAN LABOUR LEADER’S ASSURANCE NEW YORK, November 15. The New York City Aiderman Council adopted a resolution expressing “profound horror at the bestial attacks on helpless minorities in Germany and requests the President of the United States to declare his condemnation of these barbaric acts in the spirit in which Theodore Roosevelt acted on behalf of our Government after the notorious Kishinev pogroms in 1904.” Mr John L. Lewis, addressing a convention of the Committee for Industrial Organisation in Pittsburgh, characterized Herr Hitler as a “bloodthirsty wolf,” and asked the State Department to protest vigorously “against these cruelties inflicted on helpless people.” “When the United States of America makes that protest,” he said, “20,000,000 members of the C. 1.0. and their dependants will support this Government and defend it.”