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Show GERM ANS TURN I ON AMERICANS Teutons' Failure to Obtain Expected Loan Causes Change in Sentiment BV GRANT GORDON. (Special Cable to The Standnrd-F-uinlnrr. (Copyright. 1922. by Tho Standard-Examiner.) Standard-Examiner.) BERLIN. July 1. There is distinctly dis-tinctly marked change In the German attitude toward Americans, both of-flclally of-flclally and privately, since the failure fail-ure of the loan project. Evidences of this hange are numerous. Germany had counted heavily on American financial aid and the failure fail-ure has engendered nnlmosltla against everybody who Is American What makes this all the more notice- able Is that Americans had been pet-i ted and coddled In Germany as oltl-i .Tons never before were. For Instance, American newspaper i correspondents could obtain vises, permits, etc.. from the foreign office direct while others, even the relatively rela-tively favored English, were obliged to apply to the police and go through, interminable red tape. Since tho loan) failed all this has abruptly been halt-j ed. Americans meet a chilly recep- j tlon at the foroign office Corres- j pondent.s applying for privileges tre i referred to the police. Ono corres- ; pondent. who dutiee require much traveling In and out of Germany, on i applying recently for a renewal of his vise, was peremptorily refused Ho j finally was obliged to go to London, whore the German ronsul general, apparently ap-parently not advised of tho change, readily granted the required document. docu-ment. Posolbly the most flagrant case is that of Colonel Albert Louis Talboi of New Orleans an attache of the Amorlcaji military mission. A year or more ago he obtained from the foreign office permission to take an apartment in Berlin. Owing to the housing shortage forelgnersl cannot rent npartments without official of-ficial consent Now the colonel has been abruptly advised that his permit per-mit has been canceled and that he must vacate his apartment to make ! wny for a German citizen. Ambassador Houghton has been advised ad-vised and will take tho matter up with the foreign office as well as In- ' vestlgato the cause of this lhanged attitude. But the general confusion; that ha followed tho assassination of Ruthonau has side-tracked foreign i office business and It may be weeks before satisfaction can bo assured. Resentment Is growing among tho i hundreds of Americans here In offl-1 clal and semi-official quarters. Of course their present status after all j is no worse than that of foreigners of other nationalities but they nat- J urally feel grieved over th 'loss of' their former privileged position. I |