Well-informed circles here cons sider that the "Ickes Incident," merely as "one of a series of recent events exemplifying a stiffening of American policy against the anti-Comintern powers." Other such events, they state, are the American credits to China, and the supplies of food which are being sent to Spain.
It is recognized that, if all members of the Administration expressed themselves as freely as Mr. Ickes habitually does, the Government would be embarrassed. Mr. Ickes, however, it is stated, has a special position as a "whipping boy" for the Administration, often saying aloud what other eminent persons reserve for persons in their own intimate circle. Hence, officials here point out, the Administration cannot be "over apologetic to the Reich without hypocrisy."
Moreover, they state, members of the State Department are thoroughly irked by what they regard as an attempted "sabotage of the Lima conference by totalitarian em series," and are not in the mood to conciliate those who are believed to be guilty of provocation elsewhere.—Reuter.
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