The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-07-31

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only this one was inside {
Sabotage cannot be committed
unless an underground system has
been laid long In advance. And
one group OF oid-hne diplomats in
side the German Embassy Wig
Orously opposed building up this
network Of agents before the war
started. They also opposed the
Bund and George Sylvester Vie
reck's propaganda: contended
that. II Germany kept hands off
Of y. 8. affairs. the big Ameri-
can industrialists, plus the Ben
net Clarks, Nyes and Wheelers.
would keep the United States out
OF the war.
The two rival groups inside the
German embassy were:
!. The antl-NaEl factien-In-
Guiding military attache General
Friedrich Won Boetticher; naval
attache Vice Admiral Robert Wit.
thoelt- Emden; commercial attache
Theodor Won Knoop; and first
secretary Dr.. Wilhelm Tannen-
berg.
3. The prO,Nazis - Including
second secretary Ulrich Freiherr
Won Glenanth; first secretary Karl
Rosenberg: and Or. Manfred zapp,
head OF the TTans-ocean News
Service.
Kurt Sell, Washington rep
Fesentative Of the German news
agency DNB, gteeFed . middle
course between them.
The feuding between these two
groups became so bitter that, at
one time. Hitler sent his World
War commander, Capt. Fritz
WiedeInann, 70 the United States
10 settle the row, But he failed.
The battle continued right up 70
Pearl HagboF. even TO the day the
German Embassy were shipped off
TO Hot Springs. Va.
During the hectic months pre-
eeding Pearl HaFboT, hasty con"
ferences we're held Ut the Embassy
with eighty 70 one hundred OF
fetal and unofficial German rep-
Eeseptatiyes assembled 70 work out
o eo-ordlnated plan for espionage
and sabotage, Al Of these con-
feFences broke up IN O big argus
ment, with nothing accomplished.
FIGHT OVER THE BuND
one bone OF contention was the
0eTman-AmeTjeap Bund and the
role II should play after the dec.
larati0p Of hostilitles, The Bund
had been promoted directly from
Berlin by Propaganda Minister
G0ebbels, over the bitter oppose
ton OF The old.llne German bu.
Teauerats IN both Berlin and
Washington. DT, TapnenbeFg
deserves American thanks foF ~
least partially Rab0ting the bundi
The Herr Doktor LETT no stone
uptuTned 10 make the path Of the
Bnpd . rough one.
pF, Eapp, WlN0 was IN the han
camp, wrote frNtful complaints 70
Berlin demanding that Tennen5
berg be TemeyAg), but the latter
had powerful influence w the
oldyllDe bureaucracy Of Berlin, y
saved him, Even young Ernst
Hepp, the Embassys public Fela.
tl0as officer, known as ions og
IN. 00ebbele' bright young men,"
finally sided with the RntlsNaEl
contention that tlls Bnnd was dos
lng Germany more harm tllab
good,
ghs emplovmaal ef George
Sylvester VleTeek ~ We RFepss
kanda MinlsiFV wa9 Deeply 80
sapiA6 bV no anilsNaEi Ger
alanS ~ who a ven whispered
Y lhelT American friends fhal
syieFeek y paFtsSeBlab, tel
6aebhals sives him . teb, aHe
RfsaT We lass waT that -
vieEeek spread dirty, Eetlen iles
against rs Kaiser sd be FAM
W Wat ESQ We sspsss 81 h'@
Strategy Of the oldsllne aeples
mats was 70 win over American
indislTlallsEs ana blg bankers
through favorable trade esEees
llleDlA, eaFleis end patent eks
changes; END 10 establish friendly
contacts with certain OF the STATE
departments laGelstrminded ca
feeF men,
Tile Maalg, on the ether hand,
hoped 70 scare America from enc
faftna Tia war ~ tha same faos
they he abs 20 wipe their enamles,
the Americans, from the face % ~
earth,
But God regards prayer from the
hesghis Of perfect snowflake and
ere eFs Il according 10 1ils 0lanip0v
tent WI. Only ne prayers O. me
righteous Wlli e hee1ed.
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