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Show Uncle Sam Tells Him flTHEN Acting Secretary of State Sumner W Welles laid aside the ridiculous unctions of diplomacy Tuesday to tell Adolf Hitler what Vncle Sam thinks of him, he resorted to seemly words, but words with the bsrk on them nonetheless. none-theless. The worst translator in the German foreign for-eign office will be able to comprehend the full meaning of the notes, and so will Hans Thorn-ten, Thorn-ten, charge d'affaires at the nail embassy In Washington. State department officials aaid Welles forthrightly expressed bitterness unparalleled un-paralleled in present day diplomacy. That is precisely pre-cisely what the people of the United State wonted. The Hitler government hed Informed Washington Wash-ington of ita dastardly operation. In southeast ern Europe, asked that the United States extend recognition to the new states set up si protectorate protec-torate under the swastika. Welles note tells the balmy brigand of Berlin where to go. The Czech annexation is described as "wan-"ton "wan-"ton lawlessness and arbitrary force threatening world peace and the very structure of modern civilization." Then he told the little corporal that "The government of the United Slates does not recognize any legal basis" for the recent act of Germany. . This left Adolf where he was before he drafted hi note telling us thst he had changed the map of Europe overnight. A free translation transla-tion of Wallee reply might convey to Hitler that he is regarded over her as mad dog in the world neighborhood. It may move him to reflect upon the ususl end of mad dogs. But the not carried no threats, and Welle aid there have been no conferences or consultations consul-tations between the United State and any other government That, too. is what American like. On several past occasion our state department ha (tuck it neck out and only good luck hat enabled it to pull it in again, but not without crick in it. If looked for, there it humor in many strange hiding places. There it in Welles1 epistle. After branding the Hitler government with unmoral conduct, a derpoiler and thief, a trespssser on the property of neighbor. destroyer of liberty moved by greed, luit. Intolerance and hate end a first rate liar. Wallet conclude Ml reply by subscribing himself "Accept, sir, the renewed assurance of my high consideration Sumner Welles, acting secretary sec-retary of state-In state-In executing this curtsy to protocol we doubt cry much if the risibilities of oldest state department de-partment attache were not provoked to the rint of leaving them In ititches. At any rata, gave the nation a timely laugh to interrupt (rave thought upon the Hitler atrocities. ' The position of this country has found vigorous vig-orous expression. It should be of manifest aid and comfort to England, France, Russia antl Poland, whom the British government seek to weld into a firm bloc "immediately to consult In the event of any further political aggression." aggres-sion." It ought to esse the tension in Holland, Switzerland and Belgium. It should give strength to Humania as it ponder demands which the German government presses. Though Itussla't proposal for a nine-power conference to include Rumania, Jugoslsvia, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey ha been rejected, Europe' mailer powers may not feel that they are left out of consideration at possible eventualities are surveyed. The presence in London of France's President Lebrun and Foreign Minister Minis-ter Bonnet ha tremendous significance ss a demonstration of Anglo-French solidarity. To witness pan-European resentment mobilizing against him and hi terror may dissuade Hitler from interpreting the shooting of Dr. Hjalmar Krartt in Brasov by a Jew as an international Incident, a second Sarajevo. |