The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-21
u. s. Support to Great Britain Concentrates
 Nazi Attention
CHALLENGES, INSULTS
 NO LONGER BEARABLE
State Dept. Said to Have Agreed to Recall Three
 Employees at Embassy
BY JOSEPH w. GREGG, JR United Press Staff Correspondent

BY JOSEPH w. GREGG, JR United Press Staff Correspondent
 Berlin, December 21. (UP) = A German foreigI office spokesman said tOda.. that a United States polio. of challenges, insults, ane moral aggression" towart Germany had reached the point of "insupportability It was announced at the same time that the German government had asked the United States to recall several members oi it's Paris embassy staff. The Officia' News Agency said they were accugcs of being involved in action wllfT endangered the German Reich.
 The foreign office spokesman S he was fully aware of the serior ness of his statement and that made 1t as "the representative the foreign office and the respor Utc SpOhCol1ldA 4O4 ".
 Comment On Speech
 He made his statement in co nection with comment on a spec by Ronald Cross, British miIlist of shipping, in which Cross ask for American aid to Great Brita in the form of ships.
 This comment, the spokesrla said, had concentrated the Germa governments attention on the who question of United States supp3l of Great Britain.
 We are watching with great in terest the attitude of a nation whici has shown only restraint anc friendlineSS to one warning nation but whose attitude toward the other has consisted of a policy of pin bricks, challenges. insults and moral aggression which has reached the point of insupportability." the spokesman said.
 Three Mentioned
 According to the official agency, the embassy attaches whose recall had been requested are Miss ISiza~ beth Deegen, an employe of the eIll- bassy; Cecil M. F. Cross, first sec retary, and Leigh w. Hunt, second secretary.
 They were accused of aiding q British officer in his attempt to flee occupied France, the agency said.
 It reported that the state de- partment already had agreed to recall the three Americans. and had probised to investigate the allega- tion that they aided British ofii- cer.
 (AIiss Deegan was arrested by the German secret police. and held for representations had been made several times. She had been serving as an embassy reception clerk) Editorials Inspired
 The foreign office spokesman made his solemn, deliberate state ment few hours after editorials, apparently officially inspired. had appeared on the first pages of Ger man newspapers this morning aS-. serting that any outside nation which attacked Germany, Italy or OdPdll WOQlO 1idfC tO AA6AAb L4A three. One of the newspapers hins !. ed at the possibility of German aid to Italy in north Africa. On the home front. Propagandls Minister Joseph Goebbels warne- all Germans anew that any persnR who listened to a foreign radio pro- gram would be sent to prison. Prospective stablishment of joint commissions to carry out the Ger man-Italian- Japanese pact had been announced yesterday.
 In their editorials today, pub lished on first pages, the news papers emphasized the unity Of the three allied nations and Japanese warning to the United states against interference with the s'neW order" in east Asia.
 Deal With Three Voelkischer Beobachter, the neWs- paper organ of the NaM party, said:
 Whoever wishes to take up hos tilities with one of the three allies will do well to realize that 1t will
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