Evening star., 1941-04-25
Nazis Challenge Knox
Charge They Consider
Americans Enemies
Have No QuorreI With
U. S. People, Germans
Answer Navy Secretary
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. April 22-Sharp issue
was taken today by authorized Ger
mans with what they called an as
sertion last night by United States
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox
that the German people consider
the American people their enemies.
(Mr. Knox said: What we all
see is an America which is grad
ually becoming encrCled by mill
tary powers whose ideals, inStitu-
tions and methods are all of
them irrevocably antagoniStic to
our ideals, institutions and meth
ods. These same powers have
also openly and repeatedly pro-
claimed themselves our enemies,
and these openly avOWed enemies
have joined themselves together
in pact which they do not
hesitate to say is aimed at us,
and at us alone.D
Hate KnOXeS, Frankfurters.
''We hate the Knoxes. Frank
furters, Morgenthau and that smart
aleck' Donovan" these sources said.
but We also know that the great
majority of American people do not
think their way"
(They referred to the Navy Sec
retary, Justice Felix j. Frank
furter of the Supreme Court of
the United States. Secretary of
the Treasury Henry Morgenthau,
jr., and Col. William j. Donovan,
who toured the Balkans and Near
East as unofficial United States
Observer
These gentlemen and their ilk,"
II was added. make themselves
appointed enemies of the axis
and indeed one might say, of the
European Continent, but with the
American people we have no quar-
rel"
As psychological explanation of
speeches by Mr.. Knox. Secretary
of State Cordell Hull and Secretary
of War Henry l.. StimSon. these
sources offered obviously the prog
noses of these gentlemen regard
ing the indubitable efficacy of
American aid to Yugoslavia and
Greece have been proven so wrong
and Donovan proved such a MIN
compoop that they must befuddle
the American people with vocal
strength rather than logic: that's
the way they sing in chorus"
''NO Thought of Attacking L. 81
Authorized sources said:
I'VE have no thought whatever
of attacking the American people,
just as We know the American peo-
pie do not want to attack us.
mo normal human being-only
some one $50 per cent demented-
can imagine such things.
The attitude of those in Amer
lea who now speak as Knox does
shows, however, how wretched Brit
aims condition must be. BY con-
juring up alleged dangers of Ger
man designs on America interven-
zionist circles are attempting to drag
the rest of the United States into
their camp"
Hitler Statement Recalled.
Adolf HitlerS statement that sub
marines will sink any ships Ell route
to England was recalled by semi
official sources in connection with
the utteranceS of Mr.. Hull and Mr..
Knox on the United States deter
mination to carry out the aid-to-
Britain program.
German attention was focused on
the worldwide situation. especially
America, and intimationS that the
United States is determined TO pur-
sue its course angered the Berlin
press and irked the foreign office.
One authorized spokesman COM
mented that Mr.. Hull had spoken
more diplomatically' than Mr..
Knox.
Intervention Opposition Noted.
But in connection with MI. KnOX's
statements that America Cannc~
turn back, DlenSt aus Deutschland.
a commentary close to the Foreign
Office, declared that the practical
effort of such a statement is viewed
with deliberate calmneSs i'll which
one does not forget the earlier words
of Adolf Hitler that every ship en-
route to England which finds itself
before the torpedo tubes of Ger
man U-boats Will be sunk
Dienst observed that there was
growing opposition in America
against intervention
With reference to reports that the
Germans have begun negotiations
on Turkey, Spain and Portugal-re-
ports which the Germans declared
were unfounded-Dlenst said, The
Reich is prepared to strike and beat
England wherever she should again
ieopardize the integrity and peace OF
the continent"