Evening star., 1941-06-22
Deliberate Silence
Sole Nazi Answer 10
Roosevelt MESSAGE
Absence Of Reaction Laid
To Fact Protest Has
|, Not Been Received
BY the Associated Press.

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BERLIN, June 21.-A deliberate
silence was the only answer here
today to President Roosevelt'S mes
sage to Congress on the Robin Moor
case and the ebbing of American
German relations to the lowest
point in years.
The contents of the message we're
not revealed to the nation at large,
and q spokesman dismissed 1t with
the statement: The President made
a speech and the stock market fell
two points"
The only discussion of the Presi-
dents message available from in
formed German sources was that
of DienSt Aus Deutschland. edi-
torial commentary for the foreign
press, which said it was "the peak
Of controversy carried out from the
White House against the Reich"
u. s. Protest Not Received.
It was suggested that official re-
action is lacking here because the
American protest to the sinking
of the Robin Moor, which was the
basis for the message, had not yet
been received in Berlin.
In face of the silence of the press,
the bare announcement of the clos
ing of American Consulates in Ger
many and counter measures to the
freezing of German assets in the
United States, American-German
relations were unquestionably up
permost in most German minds.
Growing uncertainty of these
relations, however, had affected the
life Of most Americans in Germany
hardly at all beyond the inconven-
ience of obtaining funds.
Dienst noted some voices in Amer
lea, such as Senator Wheeler's, up
held German conduct in the case
OF the Robin Moor and added:
''1t is obvious that the assertion
Roosevelt made anew and with visi-
BILE zeal over German plans for
world conquest and alleged threat
to the American continent will be
found absurd in Berlin, just as were
earlier assertions of similar kind"
La Guardia Story Printed.
Der Angriff printed a page one
story on Mayor Fiorello H La Guar
dia's naming of $4,000 air protection
wardens. for New York under the
headline: Alarm on U. S. A. sky
scrapers in expectation of enemy
bombers"
Popular with the press was a
story under Toxic dateline say
ing Japan has not wavered from
the path since closing the three
power pact"
Newspapers also gave prominence
to stories of the first anniversary of
the French-G German armistice ne
gotiations in Compiegne Forest.
They described the event the turn
ing point for the new Europe"
Authorized quarters again denied
any knowledge of any forthcoming
Reichstag session which has been
rumored for weeks.
Stories abroad concerning Ger
man-Russian relations were dis
missed in these quarters with the
statement that they ARE rumors
which originated outside Germany"
and are not deserving of comment
here.
Seven Vessels Claimed.
On the war fronts, meanwhile,
the Germans reported six British
merchantmen and a catapult
plane equipped auxiliary-repre-
senting all told $4,000 tons-were
sunk by submarines recently in the
North Atlantic. A 6,000-ton freighter
was claimed destroyed and TWO
others damaged last night off the
Humber estuary.
Other targets in England were
said to have included the harbor
at Grimsby, Yarmouth's port facili-
ties and airports in the Midlands
and Eastern England.
R. A. F. bombs killed and
injured a number of civilians in
Northwestern Germany overnight,
but the raiders missed important
military objectiveS, DNB, the
official news agency, reported.
On the Mediterranean front, the
high command said a strong Luft-
waite force pounded the British
naval base at Alexandria.