THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 22, 1940.
SENSATIONAL WASHINGTON "WHITE PAPER" ISSUED German Honeycomb Activities In United States
Revelations ITALIANS Of The Dies OUTFOUGHT Committee
THE ACTIVITIES of the German Govern- ment in the United States were not devoted solely to propaganda or so-called military espionage. Rather the German Government had engaged in a far-sighted policy of pene- trating the economic structures of the United States and Central and South America over a number of years."
These are the conclusions reached by the Con- gressional Committee to investigate un-American activities of which Mr. Martin Dies is Chairman.
The Committee has caused somewhat of a sen- sation in Washington by the publication yesterday of its so-called "White Paper" on propaganda and espionage by German and other foreign agents in the United States.
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Washington Impression in that the White. Paper. will react very unfavourably on. German- American diplomatic relations.
Dealing with the activities of service,
the Trans-Ocean news
IN THE AIR
In a cne-to-four aerial
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bottle in castern Libya on Wednesday 15 British fighters shot down out of 60 Italian 'planes while the British sustain- ed no loss or damage, says an R.A‚F._ communi- que issued in Cairo last evening.
Taranta and other Italian ports had fresh visits from British re- connaissance 'planes.
During the night of Tuesday/ extensive British Wednesday raids were carried out in banía.
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At Tirana the aerodrome hangars were set on fire and much damage caused, while at Durazzo. direct hits obtained on wharves and har- bours.
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s'eps that might be taken ald that country in diplomatic affairs."
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During the same and preced- ing nights the R.A.F. also kept up uninterrupted raids on The report then quotes the which is described as a propa- following alleged statement
by sab, the Italian post in Eritrea, ganda agency headed by Dr.
Dr. Zapp in a letter to Japan: causing severe damage.—Reuter. Manfred Zapp, the report says: "I think if you show the Ameri- **This organisation could also. with minimum suspicion, engage cold shoulder during your nego
cans definitely a strong defensive
The Dies Committee seized in espionage activities.
tiations, this will impress them." the files of the Chemical Market- On written instructions from ing Company of New York -the German Charge d'Affaires, plan entitled "Organisation
the report adds, Dr. Zapp offer German industry in America after ed the news services of Trans, the war." Ocean. to Adrien Arcand, "Fuehrer" of the Canadian Na- In- tional Unity Party, now!
"Dr. Zapp took a deep in- terest in the manner in which the United States handled Its diplomatic relations with Ja- pan, and in fact at times
he:
not only gave advice to the, representative of the Japanese Government but also indicated to his own country contain (Continued at foot of next Col.)
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This plan called for a great banking Institute to underwrite of and support the financing German Industrial and trade -activities.
Directed From Berlin This, the Committee felt, show- ed a very definite link with Ger- man industrial life by providing that activities in the United States should be directed irom a bureau which would be established.in Berlin.
Files kept by Dr. Zapp show. ed that Germans in the United States have their
own Nazi Party unit, meeting regularly under the leader lup Friedhelm Draeger, Vice- Consul in New York,
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Dr.
The report includes a number of letters written by American citi zens all ending with "Heil Hit ler"
The office of the German Rail- way Information Bureau in New York is also mentioned together with the German library of in- formation.
The first is credited with an ex- penditure of $200,000 yearly and the second with over $341,000.
Berlin's Tactics Correspondence is cited between Dr. Zapp and a Japanese named Juju Furaktawa;, which seems to show that Berlin's hope of keep- ing the United States neutral lay in making diplomatic relations be- tween Washington and Tokyo as awkward as possible.
The Government in Washing- ton, and indeed all America, has never forgotten the vast web of espionage and sabotage spun in the years before America entered. the last war by von Papen (now Ambassador to Turkey), Boy-Ed and their agents..
Some Washington observers feel, that, thees unpleasant mem ories are going to be revived by -'plans such as were revsaled`yda-' terday to reorganise German Industry in America after the war" and, by the charge that di plomatic Immunity enabled the German Embassy in Washing- ton to carry on Nazi propaganda.. Trans-Ocean Activity Tna later. passage the
White
Paper states documentary evi dence exists to show that Trans Ocean has been the chief propa ganda weapon of the Nazi State in Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Equador, Argentina and Brazil,
"Evidence indicates that mater- ial sent from Germany to South
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