Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-07 | Page 1 | Flag Remark by N. Y. Judge in Trial Cited

FLAG REMARK BY N. N Y JUDGE IN TRIAL CITED Hull Scheduled to Ask sk Report on Court Episode By Br the Asso Associated la d Press V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Sept 7 The 7 The Germ German n government lodged a forma formal formal for for- ma mal protest with the state department department department depart depart- ment today against remarks made by jy Magistrate Louis R. R Brodsky in New York City yesterday esterday when he dismissed charges against five nen arrested in the Bremen incident The men had been charged with unlawful assembly after alter the swastika swastika tika ika flag Clag was torn down from the German liner Jiner Bremen at her New NewYork NewYork NewYork York dock on on the night of July 2 26 29 and thrown into the Hudson river The protest was delivered to Secretary See Sec Hull Hun by Dr Hans Luther the German ambassador To Ask Report Hu Hull state slate department officials reported later told Dr Luther th that thai i be ae would ask Governor GC Lehman man j pf f l New York to forward a complete report of the for study and consideration The ambassadors ambassador's representations were oral and bas based d on newspaper stories of what Magistrate Brodsky Brodsk said in handing down his decision The German government it was understood considered Magistrate Brodsky's action and publicized opinion as s highly objectionable and an unwarranted attack by a judicial ju judicial ju- ju official on a friendly nation Ascribed to o Beliefs Magistrate Brodsky did not personally personally per per- excoriate the nazi government government govern govern- ment but ascribed his statements to the beliefs beliefs' h held ld by the defendants defendants defendants defend defend- ants and others of our citizenry Brodsky said the Bremen's flag flying in American territory appeared appeared ap ap- ap to the defendants as a gratuitously brazen flaunting of an emblem which symbolizes all that thatIs Is s antithetical to American ideals of the thc God given and inalienable rights of all aU peoples to life liberty and the pursuit o of happiness