" Masquerader!"

At a luncheon of the American League for Defense of Jewish Rights last week in Cleveland, up rose Manhattan's orchid-wearing old Samuel Untermyer, Tammany Hall's one-man brain trust. Dr. Hans Luther," he cried, "masquerading as the German Ambassador, is one of the most destructive of propagandists." He implied that Dr. Luther was in charge of a $3,000,000 fund to Germanize the U. S. Turning to Wartime Senator Atlee Pomerene shaggy-maned Lawyer Untermyer cried: We had something of that just before the War, when we sent all these fellows out of the country, these German representatives. They were in the consular employ, they were in the Embassy, and they were just marched out of the country and expelled from here for the same sort of propaganda that is going on in the country now. ''Day by day we are uncovering startling new facts. A Federal Grand Jury in New York is investigating the subject, data is being collected for an inquiry by the House Immigration Committee of Congress that is to start in two weeks. . . . We are hoping soon to have a number of these enemies of our country on the way to prison or deported where they belong!" For two months Ambassador Luther whose conservative, bankerish nature is not a bit like the hot-headed crowd whose emissary he is, has suffered from anti-Naziism in the U. S. When he visited Milwaukee two months ago there was a riot. Congressman Dickstein of Manhattan's Jewish lower East Side last month began screaming for an investigation of "Nazi propaganda in the U. S." Last fortnight came the Spanknoebel excitement (TIME Nov. 6). all over an agitator with no official Nazi standing. At distinguished Jew Untermyer's outburst, pear-shaped Hans Luther of Essen drove off to the State Department to see lanky Cordell Hull of Carthage, Tenn. When he reappeared Little Ambassador Luther found himself confronted by the Press. What was a businessman to say about such Unsinn (folly)? He helplessly threw up his hands and walked away. Secretary Hull issued a bulletin: "[Mr. Untermyer] is alleged to have stated money allocated to propaganda by the German Government was being spent in the U. S., impliedly through the German Ambassador. Dr. Luther denied this allegation. The Secretary expressed his satisfaction at the Ambassador's statement, thanked him for bringing the matter to the Department's attention and expressed his concern that an Ambassador accredited to the Government of the U. S. should be subjected to a public attack of this nature." Furiously old Lawyer Untermyer now turned his attack on Cordell Hull. "The Secretary of State was most precipitous and unjudicial!" he blazed. "The German Government recently appropriated 10,000,000 marks for foreign propaganda. Where is it being spent? How many German students have been planted recently in Columbia University? How many men have recently come over on visas as stu dents and seamen who have remained here? They have joined the German propagandist army to undermine our institutions! Do you suppose, Mr. Hull, that control of our loyal, peaceable German-American societies, which was seized by Spanknoebel and his gang and converted into an anti-Jewish propaganda army, was without a guiding hand from above? "Dr. Luther may recall . . . Captain Boy-Ed, Captain von Papen and Dr. Albert. ... I could go on forever citing evidences of this conspiracy of which the German Ambassador claims to be so innocently unconscious. So did Ambassador Bernstorff. . . . Secretary Hull will live to regret his 'regrets'!"

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