Evening star., 1937-10-05
Sound German Advice.

Ambassador Dieckhoff has rendered
service alike to the Reich and to the
United States in advising Germans DOM
iciled on foreign soil not to interfere
IN the internal affairs of other countries
He thus counseled a mass meeting as
sembled in Madison Square Garden To
celebrate German day. Berlin's envoy.
through earlier service at Washington.
has frst-hand knowledge of American
resentment Of hyphenated meddling.
This has recently reached an all-time
high IN effrontery with the Deutscher
Bunds unabashed Swastika- Haunting
and goose-stepping, a display disgust
ingly reminiscent of Hitler's Schultz
staf1el on parade. Undoubtedly Senator
Borahs Constitution day admonition to
Nazi propagandists here to watch their
step, lest 1t lead them to the electric
chair, was inwardly digested at 1889
Massachusetts, avenue and thence re-
layed to Der Fuehrer, Herren Goering.
Goebbels, streicher and others whom it
may concern.
Whatever may have given Ambas-
sador Dieckhoff furiously to think. he
addresses words of wisdom to our Hitler
heilers. Precisely because they en-
Enthusiastically love their German father
land" he said at New York land are
true to the Reich, they will scrupulously
avoid criticizing the institutions and
mixing in the concerns of the land in
which they are guests. The more gen.
eral this kind of restraint becomes and
the more widely 1t is practiced by all
peoples, the sooner We shall reach the
very desirable goal of good ileighborli-
ness among them"
These sound hints are in conspicuous
contrast with the doctrine proclaimed
at Stuttgart by Foreign Minister Won
Nealrath few weeks ago. Speaking
before the Congress Of the Auslandsor-
sanisation, the Organization of Ger
mans Abroad, he claimed for mission.
aries Of the Mani gospel in foreign parts
and every true Nad is q missionary
the status Of agents Of Germany and de-
manded that these "evangels of discord."
as Senator Borah branded them, be
vouchsafed oricial protection in the
lands where they operate. It would be
useful to know whether Ambassador
Dieckhoff spoke on Sunday with the
knowledge and authority of Herr Ernst
Wilhelm Bohle. chief of the Auslands-
organisation, who functions in the
Wilhelmstrasse at the head of a section
said to be manned by a staff of nearly
I'VE hundred officials. Herr Bohle has said
that I'VE look on Germans abroad not as
Germans by accident, but as Germans
through the will Of God. Like our
comrades in the Reich, they are chosen
and obliged to cooperate in the work
that Adolf Hitler began with his move
ment."
How urgent-from the American
standpoint-is Herr Dieckhoff's warn
ing to his ver-zealous compatriots is
illustrated by the following excerpt from
An editorial in the Kurier of stuttgart.
headquarters Of the Institute for Ger
manism Abroad:
I'VE desire to bring back Germans
IN the United States to the racial
unity and common fate Of all Ger
mans. When We have attained
this goal we will then organize Ger
man-Americans for spiritual regen-
Grafton. economic support and politi-
cal schooling. German American in
nuence thus economically strength
ened and politically reactivated shall
then be thrown in the balance under
our leadership for the coming
struggle with communism and Jews
and for the Americans regeneration"
The Nazis may deserve no medals for
tact. but they qualify as paragons Of
brutal candor.
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