The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-22

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 l. The board of trade for Ger man-Arnerican Commerce, Inc, to be presided over by the New York Commercial attache, with headquar- ters in New York and branches in other cities.
 2. The American group for trade with Germany, Inc, to be a vehicle for cultivating personal connec- tions between American manufact- urers and analogous organizations in Germany.
 3. The c m a n University League, Inc, to foster exchange of cultural and social relations between Germany and America.
 The plans for each organization had been worked out in great detail and in connection with them it was suggested American German banks be organized into a banking insti- ute.
 Thorough German, Mind
 'The proposed organization" said the committee, lis typically charac- teristic of the thoroughness of the German mind and its ability to foresee in great detail future de- velopmentS. It is reasonable to SUD- pose that if Dr. Ketress and his as- sociates were able, as the plan indi- cates, to anticipate with such req sonable thoroughness the problems that would be encountered after the war and were able to present con- structive program as to the manner in which NaZi Germany could con- trol, under government direction, a large segment of American industry, then in the light of Dr. Kortess' statement to Germany four months before war was declared, namely, we are ready for war; it would reason ably indicate that Germany has al- ready done prety good job of safe- guarding its industrial interests in the western hemisphere by any and all means under its control.
 "The plan outlined lacks nothing in its effectiveness or in detail for the contemplated organization, not merely of industry and trade, but also proposes to combine these spheres of activity with great banking institute to underwrite and support the financing of German industry and trade activities.
 "The plan goes still further in that it also contemplates through cultural, academic associations and circles the cooperation of the pro fessional and academic world band ed together in typical front organ nations. ,"
 Dr. Kertess Letters The committee said it was quite evident that Dr. Kertess and the Chemical Marketing Company were very anxious to conceal the manner in which they were carrying on their business activities" and reproduced letter from Kertess to 'Siebert G.. M. B. H., Hanau, Germany" in which he Said:/
 "Will you please, first of all, re- member for the nth time that it is most highly undesirable to use Western Union: every single tele- gram of this cable company goes through the British censor.
 "It has been damned clever per- formance to make deliveries for you and even that possibility would be destroyed by such highly incau- tiouS cables as yours."
 Another letter was written by Kertress to Alexander Iehnert in Berlin on Aug. 13. It said:
 ". should write you volumes about the prevailing story of the manner in which step by step this country is being driven inexorably into war, regardless of whether it be Roosevelt or Willkie, assuming of course that the war shall ngt have ended before this spring."
 Chief Nazi Medium
 The committee charged that Trans-Ocean News Service was one of the chief Nazi propaganda me- diums in Latin America. On Oct. IT, 1889, Zapp wrote to Guenther Altenburg of the Berlin foreign of flee that he had organized the news report to Latin America, but that his offer of the service to the American press met only "the stiff est resistance everywhere"
 Better than any other press in the world the American press is informed of foreign political affairs in Europe through it's own regular correspondents as well as through the well-known large news agen- cieS Americans hold the pecU liar subjective notion that only they are objective and consequently they will not read news that does not sail under their own flag :. :"
 In letter, attributed to Thomsen on Aug. 30, 1888, Thomsen dis cussed zapp's pending arrival in the United States:
 T shall be most entirely at your disposal in order to facilitate your getting acquainted with your work it is of paramount importance that a crossing of wires with the work of the DNB (official German news agency), New York and Wash Ington, be absolutely avoided"
 The committee interpreted this to mean that Thomsen recognized that zapp's work in the United States was mot easy" but that The Thomsen, was quite willing to facil- tate the appointed tasks of Man. fred zapp."
 Zapp's Cable To Berlin
 A cable from zapp to Berlin was reproduced to reveal his comments on American international rela- tions. In it he said:
 ''The only and at the same time the strongest guarantee for Ameri- can neutrality appears to be a ruffled U. s. A.-Japanese relation ship which for the present for an indefinite period to come will moi permit a European involvement ot the U. s. A."
 Other documents showed that zapp engineered the publication in the United States of what was { known as the First German White Paper" consisting of American dip- lomatic records the Nazis claimed to have zeid in the fall of Warsaw.