Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-03-11 | Page 3 | Attacks on U. S. in Nazi Press Draw Protest by Washington

Attacks on U. S. in Nazi Press Draw Protest by Washington WASHINGTON, March 11 (UP) Ambassador William E. Dodd in Berlin today wai Instructed to makt emphatic diplomatic representations repre-sentations to tha 0nnan government orar anti-American article! spoearins: reeentlv In tha German cress. The action came wee than a weekt after the German government lodged an official, protest against remarks made by Mayor Florello La Ouardia of New Yorkwho suggested sug-gested that a statue of Chancellor Adolf Hitler be placed In a "chamber "cham-ber of horrors" at the forthcoming world fair in New York. Thi government gov-ernment apologised to Germany at that time, but pointed out It had no control evetfae pecan of American Ameri-can cltlaana. Today diplomatic representations representa-tions to the German foreign office were Instigated by a letter from Mra. Btaph.n Wise, wife of Rabbi Stephen Wise of New York and chairman of the woman's section of the American Jewish conference, to Secretary HulL Her letter called attention to remarks contained In articlee which had appeared In the German press. Mrs. Wise, on behalf of tha women's wo-men's division of the American Jewish Jew-ish congress, protested especially that the nasi press "published a statement to the effect that 1200 women attsndlng the luncheon of the women's division last Wednesday Wednes-day wsre "women of the treats, ' whs were gathered together in order or-der to be entertained by a pimp and procurer,' the mayor of New York."