The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-09

Because of this likelihood of in ternational complications the com- mittee has been nervouSly sitting on the load of dynamite, uncer- tain what to do. It has consulted the State Department, which is just as jittery itself.
 In fact, even more so. The De- partment foresees the inevitable necessity of demanding the recall of a number of German diplo- matic representatives, with certain retaliation by Berlin by the oust- ing of U. s. officials. In the pres ent delicate state of U. S.-AxiS re- lations the Department doesn't want to run that risk.
 So on its urgent advice, the committee is sitting tight and continuing its secret probe of the subversive activities. The docu- mentary evidence in the possess sion of the committee is stagger- ing. It definitely establishes:
 l. That the Nazi government
 is directly supervising and fi-
 nancing 8 nationwide fifth
 column campaign to oppose and
 obstruct the defense program,
 the U. s. Governments foreign
 policy and aid to Great Bri-
 tain.
 2. That this activity is be-
 inr carried on through German
 consulates and German-con-
 trolled papers, plus propaganda
 agencies of various kinds.
 3. That Nazi consuls get de-
 tailed instructions from Berlin
 through regular short-wave
 broadcastS in code.
 COLUMN FUEHRER
 Suspected master mind of the
 Nazi fifth column is Dr. Man.
 freid Zapp, head of the Trans
 Ocean News Service, a propa-
 ganda outfit with offices in New
 York and Washington. Zapp came to this country after being booted out of South Africa by the British government.
 Trans-Ocean records seized by the committee show that zapp is being financed by Berlin. He has received a number of bank drafts, among them one for $30,000 di- rectly from the Bank of Berlin, and also considerable sums from the Bank of Mexico, which have been traced to German sources. Copies of letters written and re- ceived by Zapp, in the possession of the committee, end with the salutation 'Heil Hitler.
 Similar evidence involves the German Railroads Information Office, professed tourist agency at Il West 57th St., N. Y. HOT CONSULS
 Two of the consuls implicated in the evidence the committee has turned over to. the State Depart ment are Captain Fritz Wiede- man, at San Francisco, and Her bert Scholz, at Boston. Le tiers show both Nazis up to their arm- pits in fifth column ente, prises.
 Wiedemann, HitIer's World War captain, is recognized in diplomatic circles as his per sonal representative in this country. Situated on the West Coast, his role now is especially important as a result of the Axis-Jap alliance. Scholz is credited with being the guiding hand behind the American Fel- lOwship Forum.
 He has been closely associated with Freidrich Ernst Auhaugen, Nazi lecturer and president of the Forum, who was seszed in Los Angeles recently as he was at- tempting to board a ship for Japan. The committee is holding Aughagen as . key witness.
 Other evidence in It's possess sion dlscIoses the existence of . secret fascist army in the U. S. running Into thousands. Chief organizers Of this esSrce have been the German American Bund, the Ks Klux Kinn, Italian American clubs and Ger man veteran societies.
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