Mr. Welles' announcement. fell ithe a bombshell on the press conference at which the official German News Agency representative was present. It was followed by a stampede of journalists through the cor-riders of the State Department in search of telephones.
it is common knowledge that the German Library of Information in New York has been one of the chief centres of German propaganda. The Administration also knows that the general public suspect that German consulates in the United States are less for strictly consular business than for the organizing and paying of Germans and Americans of German descent who remain closer to their fatherland than to their adopted country.
German organizations in the American continent will be severely affected. and it is not expected that the diplomatic staff left behind can hope io carry on the work of the great network of agencies which Germany has in all the states of the Union.
"Washington observers would not be surprised if Latin-American countries took a similar step to that taken by the United States.
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