The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-21

WAsHINGTO Several weeks before he crunched a phial of potassium cyanide between his teeth Hermann Goering had given to American in- vestigstors a play-by play account of how he and the whole Hitler machine tried to undermine Amer ican public opinion, defeat Roosevelt, and keep the United States neutral during the war.
 Goerings testimony pieced together with state ments from Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, ex-Ambas- sador Dieckhoff and dozen other Nazis comprises of the most revealing chapters in recent American history. It has been written by O. John Rogge spe- cial assistant to the Attorney General and the man who convicted Boss Pendergast of Kansas City, Gov ernor Leche of Louisiana and the old Huey Long ma- chine.
 The minute word leaked out that Rogge was writing this report however pressure began to pour in on the Justice Department. Many interested Americans wanted the document SuppreSsed-for reasons easy t understand. So far it has been How ever, this column has been able to obtain of the suppressed copies and will publish some of the most important portions.
 In view of the dangerous state of our interna- tonal relations today, it seems important that the American people realize the manner in which for eign government partly poisoned public opinion before, in order to make sure it does not happen again.
 Here are some of the highlghts of the suppressed ROgge report:
 1. A large circulation magazine in the United States was being used to some extent by the Nazis It actually paid $4,300 to Lawrence Dennis, self styled head of the American Fascist Party and one of those indicted for sedition.
 2. The head of giant utility company was being used by the Nazis for business contacts in the U!s.A. He was especially close to Nad agent Ger hard Westrick, and the Justice Department has one letter from Westrck to Behn proposing to divide up the assets of Czech company-after Czecho- Slovaka overrm by the Nazs.
 3. The Nazis knew in March, 1940, that John [. Lewis coming out against Roosevelt in the November election, though Lewis'G coal miners did not know it until six months later.
 4. A vice-president of automotive combine had told Nazi agent Westrick that he would try to sell Roosevelt getting along with Germany after Hitler had taken France Norway, Bel gium and Holland.
 5. Father Coughlin wrote letter to the Ger man Consul in Detroit asking German support for CoughlnS against the Jews and Roosevelt. An emissary of Coughlin's, Leo T. Reardon also went to Berlin and made similar proposal to Ribben- trop.
 6. Carl Byoir, the well-known New York pub lie relations man, collected over $100,0O0 from the Nazis for publicity work, using the German Rail- road Information Office as front.
 These only few of the many startling high lights of Hitlers desperate gamble to keep America neutral. If he had succeeded if the United States had not gone to the aid of England after the fall of France, the story of the wars outcome might have been entirely different.
 Here are some of the verbatim quotes from the section of the suppressed report dealing with Naz attempts to influence American elections:
 Concerning the 1940 elections, Paul K Schmidt (of the NaI Embassy in Washington told us: Both Ribbontrop and Hitler were of the opinion that any President would be better than Roosevelt. The Elm