The Archive · 1937

Reich Press Utters Dire Warning Against Spies

Berlin, Aug. 11, Further measures against British journalists in Berlin are apparently foreshadowed in an, article in the "Boersen Zeitung" which is usually in close touch with official opinion.

The newspaper states that again and again Germany has postponed measures solely in the interests of relations between Germany and Great Britain, and has pressed for peace between the two countries, In view of the British action in expelling German correspondents the journal declares, "Germany naturally has no reason to postpone measures which have long ago proved urgently necessary." 5 Tt may be taken for granted, adds the "Boersen Zeitung," that the measures taken against Mr, Norman Ebbutt, the Berlin correspondent of "The Times," will be preferred against further foreign correspondents "who do not content themselves with journalistic work but who have to a great extent interfered with German home politics."

'A resolution protesting against the expulsion by the government of any country of a foreign correspondent solely on the basis of his purely journalistic acts was overwhelmingly passed to-day at a meeting of the Foreign Press Association.

The press of 23 countries was represented at the meeting, which was called to discuss the case of Mr. Nor= man Ebbutt, chief Berlin correspon~ dent of "The Times," whose withdrawal from Germany was ordered on the grounds that he performed his duties "in a spirit hostile to Germany."

The resolution will be conveyed to Baron Konstantin von Neurath, Foreign Minister; Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, and the International Federation of Journal-

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