"Every Word"

No secret is it that the London Times, stuffiest of all London dailies, not only represents the official opinion of the British Government but prepares many of its leading editorials with Government and Palace assistance. Seldom is that fact as frankly admitted as it was last week. Following the blunt announcement of Nazi Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath at Stuttgart fortnight ago, interpreted abroad to mean that the German Government would soon ask diplomatic immunity for three "cultural attaches" to take the place of the three newspaper men recently ousted from Britain as Nazi agents (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.), the London Times ponderously announced that if the new attaches are intended to replace the three German journalists recently expelled from Britain for nonjournalistic activities, "it may as well be stated at once that their appointment would be altogether undesirable." Scarcely was this edition on the streets than officials in the British Foreign Office said that the British Government stands back of "every word" in this morning's London Times editorial.

Though the London Times is the mouthpiece of the British Government as a whole, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden has a still more personal mouthpiece in the Yorkshire Post, in which his wife's family has interests. Very much blunter was the Yorkshire Post editorial of the same date: "Could any impertinence be more naive? Could any illustrate better THE SEEMINGLY persistent incapacity of the German to realize the other fellow's point of view? Reverse the positions--suppose Eden and Chamberlain were to come out on the platform of an official body designed to organize every Englishman living abroad as a propagandist for democracy and so, in Germany, as a propagandist against Naziism. Would Hitler tolerate it for a moment? Why he cannot so much as tolerate Rotary. . . . Yet while straining at a gnat himself, he expects us to swallow camels."

Continuing in Stuttgart last week was the Congress of Germans Abroad, which had caused both these British flare-ups. Speaker of the week was none other than Nazi No. 2, Hermann Wilhelm Goring. To the idea that all Germans everywhere must propagandize for National Socialism, he added a still more practical note: "Germans abroad can and must help in promoting the sale of German goods. German business firms must under no circumstances employ Jewish representatives, for the Jews have no interest in pushing German goods."

Young, handsome, Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, British-born leader of the Germans abroad, arrogantly keynoted the theme of the rally: "A German always and everywhere remains a German and nothing but a German and thereby a National Socialist."

In Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull replied to press conference questions regarding the Administration's attitude on these German declarations with an involved, diplomatically-couched sentence. Gist of Mr. Hull's 130 words was that American naturalized citizens of German birth, as well as other naturalized persons, are expected on their oath to give full loyalty to the U. S.

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