The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-05


 rich Dieckhoff, the recalled German ambassador to Washington, will re- turn within any definite time was removed by the speech.
 Press Attacks Bitter
 The press attack on the United States was led by the foreign office mouth-piece, Diplomatische Political Korrespondenz, which said the mes sage to congress was destructive of international peace which Hitler hopes to see established.
 Climaxing blast of bitter press comment directed at the United States president on the grounds that he was under influence of war mongers," the DiplomatiSche Kor- reSpondenz declaration appeared to be tantamount to an expression of official reaction to the message to congress which Nazis privately ad- mitted was directed chiefly at Ger many.
 "It can hardly be maintained that such aims and methods Gas con- tained in MT. Roosevelt's speech) correspond to what Europeans would call peaceful" the statement said.
 "They also fall short of realizing that international good faith which MT. Roosevelt described as the American ideal.
 MT. Roosevelt would find it diff ficult to convince single German that he really fears attacks on his country or the American continent at large
 Own Plans Failed
 President Roosevelt, in his message "Showed himself to the world as a man who, realizing that his own plans and ideas have failed, has adopted the most grotesque and un- scrupulouS methods of publicity for himself" the newspaper Berliner Zeitung Am Mittag said today. An official spokesman, after studying those parts of the message which criticized Relationships, said: He might have made lot more unpleas- ant speech. In fact, when American CO1EOll2O1lS d1 bdhCll 111bO ton, it might be called reasonable" |"
 The Boersen Zeitung, in its after noon edition. headlined its message Stocy, Roosevelt sets up record as orator of hate"
 His speech sets a new high mark of that organized campaign against authoritarian states which in Wash ington is being passed of as the newest foreign policy of the United States, and which is based on the sole principle of preaching blind hate and interruptions alienation among nations" said the newspaper.
 "This campaign against reason and against necessary peaceful CO., operation has been conducted for a long time. Today, as at the begin ming, its motto is grotesque lie, namely, the assertion of an alleged ly threatening attack upon America, an attack which in fact will never occur anywhere"
 Newspapers generally, commenting on President Roosevelt's message to Congress, sought to show him as representing only himself, not the American people; as being under the influence of Jews and as attacking Relationships in order to strengthen his own position.
 Automatically, the opinion was ex- pressed that the message insofar as it was an attack on dictatorShips did not call for a drastic reply from Germany, and thus did nothing specific to make relations worse though 1t did tend to show the steady deterioration of friendly intercourse between the United States and the Nal Reich.
 4 guiding hint was offered news papers by dispatch circulated by the official news agency as from Washington under a headline which said that American" comment on the message was that "a shipwrecked man tries to save himself" It was explained that "the message is said to show that a man who did not get far with his high-f1ung ideas, and who suffered a severe setback in the election, is now trying to salvage as much as possible of his work during the last two years of his incum- bency,"
 The American source of this com- ment was not stated.
 Headlines Eloquent
 Some of the newspaper headlines were eloquent:
 Lokaianzeiger - Roosevelt speech of hatred and instigation; United States president in tow of war mon- gers; attack on authoritarian states to cover up internal difficulties"
 Morge genpost "An extremely strange message; desperate attempt to divert attention from own fail- ure."
 Deutsch Allgemeine Zeitung - Loud words of a president who is not sure of himself.
 Voelkischer Beobachter, official Maxi party organ-"New Year ser- mon of American president; the old maneuvers to divert attention; new phrases.