Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-07 | Page 2 | Denies Paper Offered

Denies Paper Offered. WASHINGTON. Dec. 6. Edward B. Mclean, editor-piesldent of the Washington Wash-ington Post, tonight issued the following statement regarding the evidence introduced intro-duced before the senate committee investigating in-vestigating activities of the brewing interests: in-terests: "Mr. Bielaski, in his testimony before the senate committee, quotes a dispatch from former Ambassador von Bernstorff. in which the statement is made that my father, the late John II. McLean, offered to sell or rent the Washington Post to the German government. Tuts is another of Von Bernstorff'B Infamous lies. The Post was never offered to him for sale or hire. "My father purchased the Washington Post for me. He managed it in my interest. in-terest. If any proposition had been on foot to sell the paper or ruin it by handing hand-ing it over to any special interest, I would have known it. "Von Bernstorff was anxious to put through anything that would help his government. He often lied to his government govern-ment and he was often fooled by sharpers, sharp-ers, as previous disclosures have proved. This lie regarding the Washington Post is on a par with the rest of 'the German propaganda. "I am proud of the Post and jealous of its reputation. It never has been and never will be controlled by any foreign government or by any special interest or any political party."