MR. SUMNER WELLES AND THE NAZIS
Sul,—The sudden outburst of Nazi accusations against the American Government, timed to coincide with the return of Mr. Sumner Welles to Washington, would suggest that his recent meeting with Herr Hitler may not have been altogether a happy one.
This is scarcely surprising if we recall that it was Mr. Welles who in December, 1938, refused to accept the protest of the German Government against a speech made by Mr. Ickes, the American Secretary of the Interior„ in which the latter said that to compare Nazi doings with the practices of the Middle Ages was to insult the Middle Ages.
In refusing the German demand for " a public and official expression of regret," Mr. Welles told the German Charge d'Affaires that the policy recently pursued in Germany had shocked and confounded public opinion in the United States more profoundly than anything which had taken place in
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