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...three German journalists, ordered by the British Home Office to leave London (TIME, Aug. 16), packed their bags last week and returned to the Fatherland. They were pursued by indignant shouts from the British press, for the Third Reich had retaliated by ordering intelligent, slightly pontifical Norman Ebbutt, for twelve years correspondent in Berlin of London's almost sacred Times, to be replaced by ''somebody less concerned with trivialities and more with facts." The British were shocked, regarded it as a blunder for the German Government to suggest that the dispatches of Norman Ebbutt, a distinguished journalist...
...amounts almost to a diplomatic incident," thundered the News Chronicle. A spokesman of the Times said with icy dignity: "We are not going to send a man to Berlin at dictation of the Nazis. Unless the Germans suffer an attack of sense within the next few days and keep Ebbutt, we shall leave the Berlin post vacant...
...Nazis had not taken their revenge by cracking down on Ebbutt the reasons for the Germans' expulsion would probably never have been made public. As it was the British press got their own back by delving into the facts, produced the following explanation...
...There was no reason given. . . . I deny that the action was taken as a result of complaints of espionage." These three were believed to be the first German newshawks ever expelled from Britain in peacetime. This week Germany retaliated by asking the London Times to withdraw its Correspondent Norman Ebbutt from Berlin...
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