Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-06
Federal Agent Bares
German Propaganda.
Plot In This Country
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American Catholic Weekly, New
York: Max A. Helm. $50 Riverside
Drive. New York; George 8. Viereck,
New York.
Besides this list, Mr.. Bielaski also
presented q supplemental list Of
about thirty names Of others to
whom he said German propaganda
matter was mailed. but who were not
believed to be friendly to the cause
withhold from the record.
Mr.. Bielaski produced letters DR..
Hale wrote to DR.. Albert, German
propaganda, advising how notes
written by Secretary Bryan during
the Lusitania controversy should be
answered.
Conferred With Hale.
From DR.. Fuehr's diary. notes were
read telling Of conferences between
DR.. Hale and o Bernstorn. Accom-
panying DR.. Hale was Louis D. Ed
wards, also sent by Mr.. Hearst who
later, according to Mr.. Bielaski, dis
covered DR.. Hale still was in the pay
of the German government.
"Is there any evidence to show that
Mr.. Hearst knew DR.. Hale had a con-
tract with the German government"
asked Senator Overman.
"No, on the contrary" the witness
replied, Ambassador Bernstorff's
diary shows Hearst did not know"
was the reply.
A prisoner named Weunnenberg at
Atlanta penitentiary. convicted Of
espionage, according to Bielaski. in
formed the department of justice that
on going to Germany a special mis-
sion Of DR.. Hale was to arrange III
transmitting his news dispatches to
include messages for German officials
in this country.
MI. Bielaski was interrupted to ask
II the German agents in this country
had ever succeeded in swerving any
government officials and he answered.:
mo, 1t is a remarkable record. The
Germans always thought that by get
ting some inside or high up they
could do something. The record
shows no American official ever was
rseduced, if we except Congressman
Buchanan of Illinois who got mixed
up with von Rintelen in the labor
peace council"
Many books and pamphlets show
ing German propaganda efforts were
produced by Mr.. Bielaski.
In recommending Hale as a pub
lictty agent, Bernstorff told the for
eign Office that Hale had interviewed
the former emperor in 1905, that he
had written a life of President Will
son which was used in the 1916 cam
paign and that his wife was German.
The beginning Of tho German
propaganda, Bielaski testified, was in
1914 when Dernburg and Albert
formed an organization with offices at
1923 Broadway, New York. Albert
and Dernburg brought from Germany
one hundred and fifty million dollars
in German securities, Bielaski said,
expecting them to find a ready sale
in this country. The market for them
was not satisfactory and only $5,O0O,-
200 worth We're sold, that amount be-
ing used in propaganda.
In october, 1914, George Sylvester
Viereck, editor Of the Fatherland,
wrote to. Albert, suggesting that the
Fatherland be retained after the war.
but that the publicity bureau should
also take steps to acquire an Ameri-
can newspaper, preferably the New
York Sun or the Press. Later on, Mr..
Bielaski said, he would give the COM
mittee Information about an attempt
to purchase the Sun by Samuel Inter
myer. Viereck suggested an arrange
ment with a New York paper which
would form an alliance with a Ger
I'man agency similar to the New York
Times arrangement with the London
Times.
A committee of the German propa.
ganda organization of which Hale,
V1ereck, Edward A. Rumely and 9TH
ers were members with Albert and
Dernberg. met Frequently in New
York, Bielaski said. At meeting,
on November S. 1914, Dernberg's
notes showed that it was the opinion
Of the committee that public opinion
Tin favor of Germany was most i'm
portant and hat every courtesy
should be shown American CORE
spondents in Germany.
r At h same meeting, the Dernberp
notes recorded that the Irish question
would be an important one in the
propaganda and James K. Mcguire.
former mayor of Syracuse, N. Y, had
undertaken the organization Of a So
ciety that was to conduct propaganda
in favor Of Germany among the Irish.
Associated with the propaganda or
g~anization was DR.. X. F. Fuehr, a
former German consular official in the
Orient.
A communication from Fuehr to
the German foreign office, dated Aug
ust 2, 1916, said the Post had been
friendly to Germany up to that time,
but recently had shown indications of
Joining the enemy" The change was
attributed by Fuehr to the Russian
ambassador and he said the policy
had. changed since the death Of the
late John r. Mclean.
In a letter to Bernstorff, Fuehr
said, "the Washington Post may be
lost to us If it cannot be put in the
hands Of Mr.. Hearst"
Bielaski said former Mayor Mcclure
OF Syracuse received $14.00 from AL
bert for pamphlets and for the organ
ization Of Irish societies. He said Nc
CURE worked among religious organ
izatons and that D%ernburg's notes on
a meeting of the propaganda commit
tee showed Derpburg had said most of
the Catholic publications would not
publish anti-German matter.
MI. Bielaski told the committee
that in October, 1914. Bernstorf
wrote a letter addressed to Albert
and Dernberg in which he said the
Washington Post was offered to him
for $4,000. 900. This offer was made,
he said. with the understanding that
Post owners would buy the paper
back at the end Of the war for ST.
500. 900.
Women workers in big factories
are to be supplied with rubber r
stoppers. OF course, there is no sug-
3estdon of a tongue-stopper: nobody