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...Angriest Jew in all Berlin last week was His Excellency the Soviet Ambassador Jacques Suritz. Under the decrees neither his nor any other "Jewish family" in Germany may keep a non-Jewish maid less than 45 years old unless she was in their service before the Nurnberg Laws were passed, in which case she must be not less than 35. A family of Jewesses only is not a "Jewish family" and may keep whatever maids they like, but one Jew in the house is considered to imperil the German maid's morals and the decree becomes operative. Jews...
...Washington next day the onetime Secretary of the Treasury let fly one of the longest and angriest statements of his 79 years: "The action ... is politics of the crudest sort! I am as much in the dark as anyone. . . . For many months now a campaign of character-wrecking and abuse has been conducted against me. . . . I know there has been no evasion of taxes on my part...
Cannonade. That last rebuke set off a cannonade of editorial rage. Angriest was Publisher Ogden Reid's arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune: "Here is . . . the first time that the President has publicly given support to the 'Smear America' campaign in which so many of his aides have participated. America has been made familiar with government by edict. Is it now to be subjected to 'government by insult?' The episode is of importance in relation to the constantly growing tendencies of the Roosevelt Administration to resent criticism, however fair, and to slander all who dare...
...Greek Foreign Office, spoke his mind to flustered Foreign Minister Demetrios Maximos who perspired profusely, waved his hands and wriggled in his chair but stood firmly by the guns of Greek Justice. Later Mr. MacVeagh returned to smack down under M. Maximos' nose one of the angriest little notes ever authorized by the U. S. State Department: "I am instructed to inform Your Excellency that the United States Government has learned with astonishment that the Greek authorities have again declined to honor the request of the United States for the extradition of Samuel Insull, a fugitive from American justice...
...President's action looked like an attempt to horsewhip Britain into line for some sort of currency agreement. Rapping the President's action as "a deliberate stroke of policy." the Duke of Northumberland's Morning Post warned against a "disorderly race of currency depreciation." The angriest shriek came from the Financial News: "Wilful sabotage could not go much further. . . . The whole business has been deliberately planned in cold blood as a piece of diplomatic blackmail...