- Headline
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Germany's New Boycott
- Publication Date
- Friday, April 7, 1933
- Historical Event
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German Students, Nazis Stage Nationwide Book Burnings
This database includes 930 articles about this event - Article Type
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- Page Section and Number
- 4
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- Article Text
- The Hitler government has made another stupid decision in declaring a boycott of the Foreign Correspondents' Association at Berlin.
Edgar Mowrer, whose book "Germany Puts the Clock Back" led to the boycott, is one of the most distinguished American newspaper men serving their papers abroad. A younger brother of Paul Scott Mowrer, winner of the Pulitzer prize for the best foreign correspondence in 1928, Mr. Mowrer has been a contributor to American and English magazines since 1913. He was a war correspondent for the Chicago Daily News in France and Belgium and later on the Italian front. At present he is the chief of that paper's bureau in Berlin. That he is still held in the highest esteem by his fellow newspaper men among the foreign correspondents in Berlin in spite of the governmental attack is shown by the fact that when he offered his resignation as president in order to avoid embarrassment to their organization which an official boycott would entail the correspondents voted overwhelmingly against accepting the resignation.
Mowrer's book which has brought the ire of the German government upon him and his organization has been read by Frederick M. Sackett, the retiring American ambassador to Germany, and Mr. Sackett agreed that the author has in no wise transcended the limits which a political writer should observe. The great majority of the American associates of Mr. Mowrer in the foreign correspondents' organization are reported to feel the same way.
Mr. Mowrer has stated his position clearly and admirably. It is that "responsible foreign newspaper correspondents must by no social or other personal pressure of whatever nature be hindered in the freedom of their criticism insofar as they report to their country on the basis of unchallengeable material." No refusal of German officialdom to accept their invitations, no governmental decree dissolving their association will cause reputable newspaper writers to swerve from the principle laid down by Mr. Mowrer. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Kaitlin P.
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Bibliography
Birchall, Frederick T. “Burning of the Books, May 10, 1933.” In National Socialist Germany: Twelve Years that Shook the World, edited by Louis L. Snyder, 101–104. Malabor, FL: Krieger, 1984.
Stern, Guy. “The Burning of the Books in Nazi Germany, 1933: The American Response.” (external link) Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual 2, (1985): 95–114.
Stern, Guy. Nazi Book Burning and the American Response: Distinguished Lecture. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University, 1991.
United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Nazi Book Burnings and the American Response. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 1988.
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