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...reaction in Germany entitled Germany Puts the Clock Back. Last week President Mowrer called a sudden meeting of the Association. He reported that the German Government did not like his book. All sorts of wires were being pulled to force his resignation. Before returning to the U. S., Ambassador Sackett had called at the German Foreign Office and pointed out that seeking revenge on one newspaper correspondent was not likely to increase the prestige of the Hitler Government. Correspondent Mowrer added...
...hold their jobs. Walter Evans Edge, Ambassador to France, flapped his elbows and told a Paterson, N. J. crowd: "The Democrats apparently had us on the run a short time ago but now Republicans are plucking up courage and are back on the firing line." At Omaha Frederic Mosely Sackett, Ambassador to Germany, proudly recalled: "I told President Hoover if Germany prospers the United States would be prosperous and he made a study of the situation. Later the President in a long-distance telephone call to Berlin told me about the moratorium. He asked for a letter or telegram saying...
...tribute, everyone agreed last week, was an enormous sheaf of real Greek olive branches laid on Goethe's tomb by the representative of Greece. Ordinary flowers were bestowed in the name of India, Haiti, South Africa, Finland and 70 more nations. The U. S. wreath?not laid by Ambassador Sackett. who was in Paris-was deposited by a grave personage whose dry wit is concealed on public occasions by his Buddha-like mien. Councilor John Wiley, chief prop of Ambassador Willys in Poland. Read the wreath which Mr. Wiley deposited at the foot of Goethe's sarcophagus: The United States...
Wheat 6 Cotton. There was a flurry in German and U. S. business circles over the Sackett-Hoover suggestion to sell U. S. surplus wheat and cotton to Germany on credit. Germany rejected the original U. S. offer fortnight ago, countered with an offer of her own last week to buy 600,000 bales of cotton, later offered to buy 600,000 tons of wheat. In Washington the Federal Farm Board had an all-day meeting and in turn rejected the German cotton offer as too low. Sensible German businessmen were not surprised...
German businessmen greeted the Ambassador Sackett-President Hoover plan to sell U. S. wheat, cotton, possibly copper in Germany with moderate enthusiasm (see p. 11). Commented the liberal Vossiche Zeitung...