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Show NazEnvoy Denies 'Bund' Exists Here ! : " if . , ., . . . ' p n "GERMANY HAS NO DICTATORSHIP" J Dr. Hans Thomsen. . .Getting "U. S. outlook" i Embassy Counsel, Touring West, Raps Charge Camps Are Traitorous ; If. as charged in recent articles in the Chicago Times, a nazi ' ! camP exi'ta in Salt Lake City, it is news to one man who should ' ; know. ' He is Dr. Hana Thomsen, counselor coun-selor of ths German embassy, who arrivsd hare Friday from Washing-tea, D. G, oa a western tour to "get a good outlook ea United States affairs." Dr. Thomson, nsxt la rank to ths German ambassador, eonoed-I eonoed-I ed that American-nasl "bund" j! camps do exist, but denied they are for such purposes are charged , by the newspaper. 1 "They are purely American en-; en-; terprises," he said. "Ths German-American citisens in them do not identify themselves with ' the German government. They ', are not to foster naxism, but to combat communism. "I do not know of any such csmp in Salt Lake City." Dr. Thomsen wants it known ' that Germany la not under a dictatorship. "A government by a minority against ths masses is a dictatorship," dictator-ship," he said. "Our government is leadership by consent of a majority." . . Germany's foreign policy Is one of desire to regain its lost colonies . . . "by peaceful means" ... ths visitor said. "Ws ars not trying to Germanise German-ise Europe," hs said. "Ws do not want to turn a good Pole or even a Frenchman into a bad German. "We will not attack another power. Should ws sacrifics 2,000,-000 2,000,-000 young men again?" Dr. Thomsen sees "no possibility possibil-ity of war" in Europe. "Ws ars doing all ws can to avoid war," hs asserted. Dr. Thomsen, at 40, is a veteran vet-eran diplomat He was sttsched to the foreign service In Berlin before going to Washington last year. |