U. S. Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton has been accredited to Germany for about three years and in all that time he has allegedly never made a speech. But, during the past week, he broke precedent, delivered an oration at a dinner given by the American Luncheon Club of Berlin in honor of Baron von Maltzan, new German Ambassador to the U. S. in succession to
Dr. Wiedfeldt, retiring to look after the firm of Krupps.
After painting a dark picture of Germany's immediate past and a rosy canvas of her future, Mr. Houghton, soon to...
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