The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-17
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CHAPTER 10

Ear weeks l had been weaving
and out of patriotic meetings.
:" bad been seeing quantities of
.a.Nazi literature bearing the i'm
p .;o+ Of Flanders Hall. was on
~ verge of writing them when
'iI autographed card from Mrs.
2 Ftizabeth Dilling Of the so-called
G 1 Patriotic Bureau, an
nonnced that she was sending me
Flanders Hall book, entitled Lord
fa+hian VS.. Lord Lothian. What
n sNrnrised me was that she made
s sn+ payment of 81, which
W me suggested that she had Ell
tber received the book gratis or
W an extremely low price. 1t also
showed thai Flanders Hall W s
onyious to shave its stuff get
round. What axe had they to
grind? ...,oa;
II nv Christian Defender. In
tew DAYS received a cordial let
~ from Siegfried H. Hauck and
quantity OF catalogues for dis
trihn4ion. A few weeks later, I
roceived Book The 100 Families
mat Rule The Empire, by Giesel-
how Wirsing, editor in chief of
nfnnchner Neueste Nachrichten, a
Nszi publication, whose American
eo.raspondent was Viereck. The
,o+roduction was written by Vier-
oc, the great American patriot
IN Hitler's pay
Flanders Hall published a i S t
which included 20 books urging
strict isoiationism and seeking to
orpfldice opinion against aid to
she Allies. As German agent
during the World War, George Syl-
recter Viereck, one of the found
orc of the Steuoen Society, had
uIsved an almost identical role.
He published The Fatherland and
Inter- Viereck's American Month
" on whose masthead W a the
motto: America First and Amer
ia Only" IN his book Spreading
Germs of Hate which he wrote
after the war, Viereck Indicated:
Every propagandist Grapes HIM
self in the flag. TIE objective OF
German propaganda W three
fold; to strengthen and replenish
Germany; to weaken and harass
Germanys foes; and to keep
America out of war.
Through devious means I ascer-
tanned that some of the Flanders
Hall books we're translated direct
ly from the Nazi propa ganda of
the Deutsche Informationsstelle
German Information Center) op-
Grating from Berlin.
paid a visit to Flanders Hall
at Scotch Plains, New ] II S ey,
which l found to be pretty,
sleepy little town an hours ride
from New York, Siegfried Hauck
was seated in an office cluttered
with flies and stacks of books.
Hauck was in his late twenties,
former small-town newspaper
man. and had cordial manners.
He did not talk like a Nazi. He
was not anti-Semitic. He was not
openly anti British. He described
himself merely as pro Ameri-
AN" Time and again he empha-
lied that Flanders Hall was an
american publishing enterprise
md he wanted Americans, rather
han COMMUNICATIONS" to dis
Ncute its books.
I'D like to see Father Coughlin
get behind our books and push
them the way ne pushed L o r d
Lothian and 100 Families he said,
referring to the lavish reviews in
Social Justice. Hauck was par
tcularly eager tc obtain the CO.
operation of various patriotic or
CARNATIONS " Any non-German or
ganization would do he added, as
long as it was "old-established."
When I asked If he intended to
publish any anti-Sennitic books his
denial was prompt.
In due time our Department of
Justice tra.led George Sylvester
Vlereck to the inconspicuous Of
ices in Scotch Plains and soon
established the fact that he ''fi-
nanced, controlled, and directed
the American publishing enter
prise. When finally arrested by
me F.B,l. Viereck said blandly:
l have tried hard to help the
PRESIDENT keep his pledge to which
lie owes his reelection"
"A week after visiting Hauck, !
heafo from him again:
You mention that you may go
10 washington; colncidentally, I
nave Just returned from a four-day
q VISIT there. spent much time
4 Nl'n our fine patriotic congression-
a leaders and other prominent
american citizens, making final
arrangements for the publication
@ Books
Inc first of these books by Con-
gresham Stephen A. Day will be
81 ioHo"eo by two books by the fight
ns young Senator, Rush D. Holt.
lnese are the books that we have