The Archive · 1938

Washington Sceptical

'Washington, July 2, Reports from foreign sources claiming that the US, Secretary of Sialc for the Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Jr. now on holiday in France, has' discussed the War Debts question with French statesmen. were considered "without foundation act" by authoritative elreles here to-lay, Washington, July German authorities here said today that Chancellor Adolf Hitler had awarded Mr. Henry Ford the Grand Cross of the German Eagle in re: cognition of his motor car. The honour is the highest that can bestowed by Germany upon a citizen of a foreign nation-—United Press, A spokesman for the Treasury also declared that he had no informa ti fon the subject of such conyers tions. Mr. Hull supplemented these statements in asserting that he had received no indication that the War Debts subject had been taken up—Havas.

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