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...Argentine citizens. The House of Deputies passed a war-preparedness bill authorizing the expenditure of 1,115,000,000 pesos ($254,220,000). And awaiting trial last week, in addition to Editor Enrique Osés, were Arnulf Fuhrmann, leader of an attempted Nazi military uprising in Uruguay; Nazi Propagandist Edmund Muckein; local Führers Arnold Hoffman, owner of the Misiones electric-light plant, and Dr. Robert Suntheim, director of a Government sanitary station...
...Weimar Republic in the Kapp Putsch. His elder brother, Gregor Strasser, was Hitler's first Gauleiter (district leader). Brother Gregor, whose secretary was Heinrich Himmler, converted reluctant Brother Otto to the Nazi cause. Then both went into Nazi publishing, hired away from their enemies a live-wire propagandist-Paul Joseph Goebbels. Later Otto Strasser broke openly with Hitler. Brother Gregor did not break away. He resigned his Party posts but stayed on. In the June Purge he was liquidated. Otto Strasser escaped from the Third Reich, continued his plotting abroad, was last reported captured in France by the Nazis...
...object is not small time spying but big-time propaganda among U. S. businessmen. But the "revelations" proved highly embarrassing for a number of people. One of those embarrassed was Captain Rieber, who had made the mistake of doing small favors for a Nazi propagandist who was an old friend. He saw the press in a hurry and declared that he did not like the idea of dictatorships, but that his company was in the oil business, not in diplomacy or politics...
...York Post's Daniel Lang tracked him down, wrote an interview in which talkative Dr. Ried gladly discussed his South American success. As other papers picked up the story the nervous Anti-Nazi League, remembering that a pro-Nazi magazine (Die Neue Woche, edited by Propagandist Dr. Manfred Zapp, in format somewhat resembling TIME) was already running full force, again warned the State Department: "If he does not take over certain of the activities of Dr. Friedhelm Drager [German vice consul in Manhattan] ... he will probably occupy the position of confidential fifth-column adviser to Consul General Borchers." Last...
...Ambassador, talked freely with reporters, broadened the circle of Embassy guests from the traditional group of highly placed Government officials who are also social, made contacts with New Dealers as well as with old Rhodes Scholars. Except for a little sniping, he has not been criticized as a propagandist, has been mildly criticized 1) because he is reputed to be too often at the State Department and 2) has presented Britain's case in terms that are more effective to intellectuals than to businessmen...