Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-12-30 | Page 1 | Germany Widens Rift with U. S.

WIDENS RIFT WITH O I BERLIN SAYS NO HOPE OF RECONCILIATION If AMERICA BACKS JEWS Washington Must Change Attitude Official Nazi News Agency Declares in New Protest at af Denunciation by Ickes BERLIN Dec 30 UP There UP-There There is little hope 0 of improvement improve Improve- ment in relations between Germany and the United States at present the government declared tonight in a statement issued through the official news agency The statement statement widened the breach 4 between the two countries caused by bya a speech of Secretary of the Interior Interior In In- tenor Harold L. L Ickes denouncing Germanys Germany's Jewish anti-Jewish program For the first time the German public was apprised of the fact that the government had p pro protested r o t e est s t e d against the Ickes speech and Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington had curtly rejected the pro pro- test Hope Unfounded The statement declared that as long as the present American attitude attitude attitude atti atti- tude persists the hope expressed by the American foreign office that German-American German relations may improve has no foundation The ambassadors of both countries countries countries coun coun- tries already have been recalled for consultations and to today's days statement statement state state- ment distributed by the official n news ws agency Indicated the possibility that Dr Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff may not return to Wash Wash- in ington ton The statement said United States Secretary of Interior Interior In In- tenor Ickes made a speech before the Zionist league in Cleveland beford be- be for forts ford Christmas Christmas' in which he launched into an att attack attack at at- t tack ck on th the tM G German leaders together together together to to- gether with invectives upon the third reich Nazi Nail Protest Cited It is learned from an authoritative tive source that the German charge in Washington sharply protested to the acting secretary of state in Washington The United States foreign office office of of- fice lice however has not dissociated Itself from the statements of the American secretary of interior as obviously is customary in international international I relations in such cases but butha has ha attempted to justify those state state- ments I It is therefore declared that as long as such methods obviously serving the Jew interests but Ignoring ig ignoring ignoring ig- ig noring the real German-American German interests are applied in German- German American relations the hope expressed ex ex- pressed by the American foreign office office of of- fice lice that German-American German relations relations relations rela rela- may improve has no foundation tion