Evening star., 1943-07-07
Writer Tells Court
viereck Attended
Nuremberg Rally
Berlin Correspondent
Sow Propoeondist OF
kozi Porty Meeting

iNoLi WY NNSStIuS
Miss Siegried Schulz, former Ber-
lin correspondent for the Chicago
Tribune, testified in District Court
today that she last saw George Syl-
vester Viereck at the annual Nurem-
berg rally of the Nazi party in 1885.
Viereck. German propagandist, Is
Agents Registration Act.
Miss Schulz, on questioning by
Prosecutor Albert E. Aren't, identified
several high Nazi officials who have
been linked with Viereck in earlier
testimony.
DR.. Hans Dieckhoff. former Ger
man Ambassador to the United
States, was in charge of American
problems" in the German Foreign
Office, the witness said. Viereck's
former secretary testified last week
that the defendant sent weekly re-
ports on the American political
scene to Dr. Dieckhoff, to Munich
newspape and to man identified
only as Won Strempel of Bethesda"
Identifies Won StrempeI.
Asked if she knew Herbert Won
Stempel, Miss Schulz replied in the
Affirmative, identifying him as for
mer press attache at the German
Embassy here.
First witness to be heard today
was Mrs. Gordon L. Spielman.
former secretary of the late Senator
Lundeen of Minnesota. She testi-
fed that Viereck helped Senator
Lundeen prepare several isolationiSt
speeches. She said Senator Lundeen
told his Office force not to make it
widely known" that Viereck was a
frequent visitor to his office
With a recess in the trial sched-
uled for the next four days. the Gov
ernment was not expected to rest
its case until Monday, Prosecutors
George A. McNulty and Mr.. Aren't
said earlier today. The jury prob
ably will receive the case late next
week.
Pvt. Prescott bennett, former
treasurer of the prewar. iSolationist
Make Europe Pay War Debts Com
mittee, returned to the witness
stand yesterday and was questioned
on Vierecks connections with the
committee.
Memory "StilI HAY"
Defense Attorney John j. Wilson
Benefits memory by reading from
minutes Of grand jury proceedings
in 1941 and 1912, but the witness in
sisted that he was still pretty
hazy." Pvt. bennett has been
quoted as saying Viereck contrib
uted anywhere from $50 to 5000
to the committee.
George Hill, former Office assist
ant of Representative Fish. Repub-
lican, Of New York, was next called
by the prosecution, and he went into
detail of how Pvt. Dennett's COM
mittee ordered large numbers of re-
prints of speeches by members of
Congress. Among speeches sent out
to a select mailing list under Pvt.
Dennett's direction, the witness as
serted. were those delivered by Sem
ators Wheeler. Democrat, Montana;
Nye, Republican, North Dakota;
Clark. Democrat Idaho. and La
Toilette, Progressive. Wisconsin, and
Representatives Hoffman, Repub-
lican, Michigan: Knutson, Repub-
lican, Minnesota; Burdick. Repub-
lican, North Dakota, and Day, Re-
publican, Illinois, and former Rep
resentative Tinkham, Republican,
Massachusetts,.
Denies Being Jsolationist.
Questioned by Mr.. Wilson, Hill ad-
mitted he had served time for per-
jury as result of testimony in Vie
reck's first trial. When asked If he
were an isolationist. the witness re-
piled Il was not an isolationist. I
was nom n-interventionist.'
Among speeches sent out under
congressional frank, Hill testified,
were you're On Your Way to War"
England Expects Every American
to Do His Duty" Il Burned MY
Fingers Once" war Propaganda, :"
Stay Out of War" and Petty
MmdS and Fofelgn S2uarTeE.
Hill said he once received "a tip"
of 500 from the defendant for sup
plying him a mailing list of the Ma
tional Committee to Keep America
Out of War. He said the organiza-
ton was composed of so members
of Congress.
Nye's Aide Testifies.
Gerald Movius, secretary to Sem
ator Nye disclosed that Viereck once
asked him if he could order six or
seven million copies of "Propa-
ganda in the Next War;" which he
described as a reprint from a Brit
ish publication. Mr.. Movius said he
told Viereck such job would cost
around SIS, 900, but that he was
afraid that Senator Nye would not
authorize such a printing.
Mr.. Movius described a subsequent