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Show Q- :-3ARD DEFENDED BY BERLIN. id ' i i-gts That Ambassador is Anti-Ger-;i man Denounced as Slanders. Berlin. In the censorship debate in i- ; vays and means committee of the :.:;stag protests were uttered r-instthe restraints on the discussion i American affairs and the American -:a;sador. A representative of the iign office told the members that --Titi against Ambassador Gerard j ;:e being circulated subterraneously : tie newspaper world, these alleg-j alleg-j -I anti-German sympathies and acts e ":the part of Mr. Gerard. They were iing more than "tittle-tattle and --tiers," said the foreign office x'teiman, and it was obviously the :;crnment's duty and the mandate of crcational courtesy to protect a rep-mutative rep-mutative of a friendly power from -1 attacks. |