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U.S. apologizes for insulting Adolph Hitler ????!!!...
U.S. apologizes for insulting Adolph Hitler ????!!!...
Item # 723536
March 05, 1937
NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, March 5, 1937
* United States apologizes to Adolph Hitler & the Third Reich
* Mayor Fiorello La Guardia insults Hitler calling him a "brown-shirted fanatic"
* U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull makes apology for remarks
The top of the front page has a one column heading: "U.S. OFFICIALLY APOLOGIZES TO GERMANY" with subheads. (see images) Interesting report here when the United States apologized to probably the most ruthless dictators of all time.
Complete with all 46 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.
AI notes: In March 1937, when New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia publicly attacked Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, the German government formally protested to the U.S. State Department, calling the remarks offensive and unbecoming of an American official. In response, Secretary of State Cordell Hull issued an informal expression of regret, telling reporters that the U.S. government “earnestly deprecated” the mayor’s offensive language and regretted utterances that could offend a foreign government, and emphasizing that such comments did not reflect official U.S. policy; this statement was essentially a diplomatic effort to calm tensions rather than a formal apology directly to Hitler or the Nazi leadership. Hull repeated words of regret and urged an end to the controversy, framing his remarks as an attempt to preserve good U.S.–German relations while noting the constitutional protection of free speech in America.
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