Mr. Welles warned Dr. Thomson that expressions of public indignation, such as that of Mr. Ickes, were inevitable, and that Mr. Ickes' criticism of Mr. Henry Ford, and Colonel Charles Lindbergh, were "purely a domestic question, in which Germany could have no concern whatever, and which I cannot discuss" As long as German attacks on American officials continued, Mr.
Welles went on. the German Government had no right to suppose that attacks of the same character would not continue in the United States.
"Mr. Welles concluded by expressing his personal belief that public recriminations by any country against another did not contravene good relations between the peoples of the world.
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