The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-11
Merry y-Go-Round

WASHINGTON, July 11-u, S. Army and Justice Department investigators in Germany have had some confidential and highly significant talks with Hitlers former diplomats in Washington Their amazing test lmony should be of interest to every American an
 indication how foreign propaganda poison peoples minds. The testimony also happens to be of especial interest to this column.
 On Sept 13, I94O, this column published certain facts in the strange aplane death of Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota among other things, that Senator Lundeen had delivered speeches the floor of the Senate written for him by paid Naz agent George Sylvester Viereck; and that at the time of his death Lundeen was under investigation by the Justice Department.
 These facts were immediately denied by the then Attorney General Robert Jackson, and the column was denounced on the floor of the Senate by Ben- nett C. Clark of Missouri and Burton K. Wheeler of Montana No U. S. Senator they said, would think of besmirching the fair of the U. S. Senate by delivering its floor speech written by | foreign agent
 Mrs. Lundeen also threatened suit, and the Bloomington Ill, Pantegraph, canceling the column criticized it edtorally follows:
 On the basis of mere popularity if they were the sole standard by which publish newspaper Merry Go-Round would be in its usual place today However, it will not return. There only 96 Senators To say that of them being shadoWed by Federal agents suspicion of treason seri- GUS enough. But the Lundeen item written without a shred of published newspaper evidence in it's support. This was violation of newspaper ethics as practiced by this newspaper. =. That is why there will be no more Merry-GoRound in the paper" Despite this, the Merry Go-ROund continued to publish other exposes of Nazi propaganda: How Rep | resentative Hamilton Fish (NYD rented his New York home to the Naz consulate at high figure and how he was being used by Nazi agents; how Nazi agent Vereck formed Flanders Hall of Scotch Plains, N. J. as propaganda blind how the Hauck family officially the publishers of Flanders Hall put out such anti-British books The 100 Families That Rule the Empire" The Hapless Boers" De mocracy the Nile" Lord Lothian vs Lord Lothian; how these books were promoted; and how of Illinois, We Must Save the Republic published by Flanders Hall.
 This column also reported that Viereck an Amer
 can citizen, received S1 900 month from the Ger man Library of Information and that the cover of these propaganda books paid for by Germany bore the appeal: Dear fellow American: We ask the support of all those who believe with us in America first and America OnIy'
 In Germany, the other day, Dr. Herbert von Strempel, former first secretary of the German En- oasy in Washington finally confirmed in complete detail these reports published six years earlier Capt Sam Harris of the U. S. Army interrogated him.
 After bringing out the fact that Viereck was en- poyed as the chief Nazi propag gandist for Germany in the LISA, Captain Harris asked: I'd now like to return to the role which Vereck played in this studied program which the Nazi Government had worked out to keep the United States out of the war You mentioned yesterday that Viereck was appoint ed public relations counselor of the German Library of Information