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Ail Except AdolfSINCLAIR LEWIS, her husband, says Dorothy Thompson is quite able to take care of herself. But the expulsion of such a -well known and able foreign correspondent from Germany raises larger questions. Miss Thompson wasT _ __________ _ _ .. _ inain Germany legally'and was.not charged icrt with any illegal or even partisan activity there. Her “crime”-was that in lor- ^ mer years she had written articles lor u^, American readers critical of Hitler. AbleeretheseitilthDftilRimhiaiaialccatastc»\yccetFfew days before Miss Thompson was expelled, the London Times issue was confiscated In Berlin.These are merely two of a long line of incidents indicating nazi efforts to.lgr intimidate the . foreign press. Whether ™ , it is the radical press of Russia or the conservative London Times and Saturday Evening Post, Herr Hitler seems determined to prevent foreign correspondents from reporting the facts about the nazi regime.The response of the world press to that sort of intimidation is shown by the almost unanimously critical foreign editorials on nazi excesses, and the solidarity of the foreign press corps of ! Berlin in ' escorting ' Dorothy Thompson ' to her train of banishment.'It is the sovereign right of any government to expel any foreigner it desires, however innocent of wrong doing that alien may be. So, none can properly question the legal position'of the Hitlerites in such cases.But one can question, seriously, the intelligence of the Berlin government. However much Hitler would like to make the world press goose-step with the terrorized German press, he ought to know: that is impossible. And he ought to know that expulsion and intimidation of reputable foreign correspondents inevitably produces the belief among foreign readers that the nazis have* something very terrible to hide.Moreover Hitler should know that even if he drove all of the foreign press representatives' out of Germany, there would still be factual reports from outside Germany highly displeasing to him. For instance, the same day Hitler madethe Thompson expulsion news, the world press was carrying the news that Mussolini had refused to return Hitler's visit and that • an international Protestant congress meeting in Denmark condemned nazi treatment of. the churches. It seems that all the world is out ofstep except Adolf.* *. * *
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Mon, Aug 27, 1934
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