Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
ExiIed Count
Ferre+s Out
Nazis in u. S.
Refugees Aid in Trapping
Agents Of Hitler
BY EDWIN c. HILL

LlCli pans.
They may never have known
that il was not their trusted
agent they talked TO, but his
brother, Count Ferdinand Ger
min, a bitter foe of the Nazis and
all their works. This mistake
helped the loyal Austrians to re-
sist at the time Of the murder of
Dollfuss and defer their subjuga-
ton for several years.
Count Ferdiand Czernin is now
in New York, heading Austrian
Action" an organization of in
dependent Austrians which is
conducting counter espionage
against the NaZis in this country
and which is working with other
eXiled governments and organi-
cations to make the ingeSted
democracies highly lndlgestible
in the German NAV.
They are re-establishing in
Europe the freedom broad
casting stations, with which they
rallied the victims of the NaZi
onslaught before blitzkrieg. and
they have planted on the con-
tinent about 400 hidden recelv-
ing stations.
They also are organ zing
broadcasting for South America
and other countries where public
opinion may still be informed
and modified against the world
aggression of the Germans. Their
fight is under the banner of de-
mocracy. and they report marked
success in Austria in preparing
the ground for more overt resist
ance in the future.
THE Free French, Free Poles,
l. CZechs and Scandinavians
are similarly aggressive and
sklllful. working with the enc
mics of NaziiSm. and these
movem ents, collectively. and
their efforts are historically
unique in their pooling Of fight
ing resources against world
tyranny.
Count Czernin's father was
foreign minister of Austria from
1916 TO 1918, under Franz
Joseph. The count is brilliant
journalist and author. a vlgor-
Gus assailant of the Nazis from
the days of the beerhall putsch
of 1923.
In that early day he warned
his country time and again that
here was the inception of a
ruthless terror that would over
whelm the world unless it were
checked.
He made fervent appeals to
France and England for i'm
mediate drastic action against
the rising Nazi power - and
he was, of course, a voice cry
ing in the wilderness.
With the final Nazi seizure
Of his country. the Count cS-
capped to London and there
wrote a Singularly penetrating
and prophetic book called
Europe. Going, Going, Gone"
He came To the United States
about year and a half ago,
with his wife. He is six feet
three inches tall. weighing about
220 pounds, with his straight
black hair reached back in
pompadour, vigorous and ener-
getic and unwavering in his
faith that civilized Europe
will be built on the ruins after
the overthrow of the Nazis.
While he has no detailed plan
for a European federation. such
as Clarence Streit.S Union
Now" he believes that means
must and will be found TO re-
store traditional political nd
cultural freedoms, and that any
particular device for bringing
this about is secondary to the
fact that the spirit of each of
these conquered nations still
lives and will. he calmly be-
heves, prevail in the end.
ONE need only recall the work
" of th991echS in the World
War TO know that an intclli-
gently organized fighting force
such as the above may be ex-
tremely effective and may deal
plenty of misery to the oppres-
sorS.
As VIII Twins recent book
has shown. the CzechS in Am
erica worked miracles in coun-
ter-espionage. and some of the
biggest game caught by our
secret service was Steered into
the bag by their brilliant de-
vices.
There is one specific reason,
noted by Count Czernin, incl
dentally, for the supreme effec-
tivenesS of these various free
peoples" in working with our
information and intel igence
services.
This lies in the fact that
there are among them many
men who are old hands in sniff
fling their way through the dark
sub-cellars of German CONT
mental intrigue. They are ex-
perts in this business.
So far as this country is con-
cerned. we're Just babes i'm
arms when il comes 10 intrigue