Congressman hits luxury hotel for enemy diplomats

Congressman Hits

Luxury Hotel for

Enemy Diplomats

Condemns Detention

In Ritzy Resorts;

Cites Big Expense

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1-(WU.P)-

Representative Stephen M. Young,

|Democrat of Ohio, Tuesday de-

| nounced the "`striped-pants boys at

| the State department" who arrang-

ed for the detention of Japanese

and German diplomats at ritzy re-

sort hotels in the mountains. of West

Virginia and Virginia.

About 200 Germans and Hungari-

ans have been quartered at the lux-

urious Greenbrier hotel at White

Sulphur Springs, W. Va., and some

90 Japanese were sent to the Home-

stead hotel at Hot Springs, Va.,

Recalling that among the Japa-

nese were the two envoys who were |

negotiating with this government |

at the time of the Pearl harbor at-tack, Young protested keeping

them "at great expense to the |

American taxpayer at one of the!

finest resort hotels in the country." |

He said the government should

give them safe-conduct to their na-

| tive country and treat them proper- |

| ly but that "it's time we Americans |

are getting hard."

Young also condemned as "re-

volting" the release by authorities |

in Hawaii of a picture showing |

United States troops standing at at-

tention at the burial of a Japanese |

airman killed in the "sneak" attack |

on Pearl harbor.