Arizona republican., 1918-12-20
BECKER REVEALS WORLD WIDE HUN
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New York City Auditor Named-Telegraph News Service Sought-Publica- tions Tempted By Subsi- dies-All Sorts Of Trick cry Exposed At Hearing In Washington.
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 WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.- Propa- ganda machinery set up by the German government in Berlin and throughout the world, to spread Germanic ideas. and the methods of financing this in the United States, were described to the senate investigating committee to- day by Alfred l.. Becker. deputy attor ney general of New York.
 The witness also told of his investi- gation for the French government of the success of Bolo Pasha, executed as a French traitor, in getting S1,6S3,00O of German money in this country, for purchase of the Paris Journal, but added that since apparently the Paris Journal did not change it's attitude Of loyalty toward France, the transaction was "a pure swindle" of the German government.
 Mir. Becker read documents gathered partly by the British secret service, showing that the German foreign office and other government departments at Berlin, maintained elaborate systems both before and after tF'a European war began to iiilluense thought all over the world, working mainly through the press. Branches of German banks and commercial houses co-operated in ;t vast cohesive organization to promote friendly relations toward Germany. Journalists. college professors, bankers. business mo -d commercial consular attaches-many of them being citizens ] of the country in which they woAked-- were employed, Mir. Becker said. Usu- = ally the propaganda was insidious. with 1 an attempt to conceal it's real nature ot purpose.
 As early as 1909, said MT. Becker, ] George von Skal, a former German re- serve officer, and later auditor. of ac- counts of New York city. was told on a visit to Berlin by a representative of | the foreign offices press bureau, that i he would be valuable in case of a fu- ture war, to keep in touch with tha press in the United States. There was no evidence, however, that he acted in this capacity after the United States entered the war, the witness said.
 The German government in May, 1914 three months before the war opened tried in vain to buy the Ottoman tele- i graphic news agency, with headquar- ters in Bagdad, to spread German propaganda The publication of Ger man edition of Current Literature. T magazine. of which George Sylvester Viereck. in the United States. and his l father, Louis Viereck in Berlin, wers promoters. were mentioned by the wit. ness, together with the Germanic mu. scum at Harvard and the movements 10 exchange professors with American universities, as German propagand: 1 moves.
 One example of enemy propaganda said Mr. Becker. consisted of the sys. tematic effort, late in 1917, to sprea, throughout the world the idea tha, Germany was on the verge of interna revolt. and that the kaiser would sooi be overthrown. The fact that the dis semination Of these reports was on. eouraged by the chief German govern ment censor, was convincing evidenc. that the efforts were propaganda. in tended to paralyze the prosecution O the war, in Mir. Becker's opinion. H, said these reports had been sent out 0 Germany by George T. Odell, core
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