NAZIS DENOUNCED
AMERICAN MINISTER SPEAKS OUT GERMANY’S RETURN TO BARBARISM GREAT PEOPLE VICTIMISED AND DEGRADED/ ACEPTANCE OF DECORATIONS CRITICISED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. . CLEVELAND, December 19. Specifically mentioning Mr Henry Ford and Colonel Lindbergh, the Secretary of the Interior, Mr Harold Ickes, today criticised the acceptance by Americans of decorations from Germans. He commented: “How can they pretend, in accepting shabby baubles from a brutal dictator, that they are honouring a great people whom a dictator has victimised and degraded?” In the most outspoken attack on the Nazis ever made by an American statesman, Mr Ickles declared that her persecution of the Jews had carried Germany back to the period in history when man was unlettered, benighted, and bestial. He added that Jews in Germany were regarded as political eunuchs and social outcasts to be dragged down like mad dogs. Mr Ickes rfiade the charge that a dictator was forced to manufacture dangers in order to strengthen his hold on the people.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 December 1938, Page 7
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161NAZIS DENOUNCED Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 December 1938, Page 7
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