Washington, July 16.
Tne firm attitude of the State Department regarding the obliga-lions of tHe German Government to investors in the United States was reiterated to-day.
In a strongly-worded note, the United States Government rejected flatly the recent German proposal what interest due American investors Jshould be the subject of a bargaining. conference.
The State Department subsequently announced that the U.S. Ambassador to Berlin, Mr. William Dodd, had delivered to the Hitler government a memorandum strongly maintaining that American holders of German bonds are entitled to the same treatment accorded British me Vestors-—United Press,
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