Berlin, Mar. 4.
A particularly violent commentary on U.S. President Roosevelt's add-Tess to Congress upon its 150th anniversary today, was published this evening by official D.N.B. news agency.
The article accused the President of lying about the alleged lack of religious freedom in the totalitarian States, This criticism was taken as "an apology by Roosevelt for the democracies."
DNB. continued in asserting, "There is a vast difference between a government supported by a feeble majority, which must on every occasion appeal to the instincts of the masses, and a national regime which rallies 99 per cent, of the citizens in elections that are not influenced by either politico! cliques or coalitions of interests.
"We do not wish to persuade Roosevelt of the justice of our political conceptions, but we wil! forbid him to meddle in our aff:
this manner.
Regarding President Roosevelt's declarations upon the freedom of the Press, D.N.B. stated, "The totalitarian States naturally cannot tolerate a free Press which, as regarded here. enjoys nothing but unlimited licence fo excite and injure.
"The attitude of the German Press, which discards lies and excitation as instruments of policy, and which disposes of the continual provocations of certain statesmen and war-mongers, should constitute an example all who pretend to aim at the progress of civilisation.—Havas.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.