Show GERARD DEFENDED BY BERLIN charges that ambassador Is anti ger man denounced as slanders berlin in the censorship delate debat eln in the ways and means committee of the reichstag protests were uttered against the restraints on the discussion of american affairs and the american ambassador A representative of the foreign office told the members that charges against ambassador gerard were being circulated in the newspaper world these alleging I 1 ng anti german sympathies and acts on the part of mr gerard they were nothing more than tittle tattle and slanders said the foreign office spokesman and it was obviously the governments duty and the mandate of international courtesy to protect a representative of a friendly power from such attacks |