Berlin, Dec. 25.
The German Foreign Office has decided to take no further steps in the controversy with Washington until after Christmas.
Newspapers here, however, continue their violent attacks on Mr. Harold L. Ickes, American Secretary of the Interior, and Senator Key Pittman, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. They also contain what appear to be threats of reprisals if America should break off diplomatic relations.
The "Nachtausgabe," for example. says: "One has the impression that certain circles in Washington want to rupture all relations with Germany. If that is really so, National Socialist Germany would known how to resist such an action pursued by Jews and Bolsheviks with Washington's ce-operation."
The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" says that if it really came to a rupture of relations, the German answer would not be long in coming.
All the papers suggest that the anti-German campaign in America is designed to distract the American peoples' attention from the "failure" of the Pan-American Conference—
Reuter.
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