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Show A SLIGHT CLOUD. The President, Bays rumor, has, asked of the Secretary of State ' a full statement of our relations with Germany and Austria in regard to the treatment of naturalized citizens of the United States. - For some time past i ; the Governments of Germany and Aus-i Aus-i tria have heaped many indignities upon I ! : American citizens who were natives of f i those countries but who have renounced ki allegiance to their native land. When ,: t such naturalized citizens have returned 1 ! to their native land for the purpose of i visitincr fripnd unrl rnlafi-ao : i r .vuvkivo, luttiij' liUlCO I they have been treated as though they I ' were traitors, and they have been offi- !; cially annoyed in every way conceiva ble. American ideas are not agreeable ! . to the German Government, and these j ideas have caused many thousands of Germans to forsake the Fatherland and seek new homes in the United States, and every German who becomes a citizen of the Republic deprives Germany of a soldier, and it is upon her soldiers that ; she must depend. In many ways have i German-American citizens been annoyed in Germany, and although there comes a r ; . . denial that the President has asked for I j the papers in the case, yet there is enough rj in it all to raise a slight cloud and cause I i much conjecture. The probabilities are I j that there will yet be some official action I j taken if complaints continue to be made in the future as in the past |