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Answers. Scholarly Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees, onetime Swarthmore College president, now director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J., branded the attack as "impertinence" and "an old story." Said he: "It was made in 1916 by George Sylvester Viereck, who has lately incurred Uncle Sam's displeasure for his pro-German activities. . . . The Tribune places under suspicion several signers of the Declaration of Independence.* ... The Tribune publishes a list ... of 49 Rhodes Scholars engaged in civilian war work. It is characteristic of the Tribune's carelessness as to facts that this list...
...Accused New York's loudmouthed Congressman Ham Fish of permitting "subversive" use of his Congressional frank by convicted Nazi Agent George Sylvester Viereck and others. When the Chicago Tribune-minded Illinois delegation sought to eliminate Ham's name from the resolution, cries came from the floor: "No," "Pin it on him," "Call him by name." Replied Legionnaire Ham Fish: "Manufactured lies...
...Shambles. Slowly, surely, Author Carlson learned every trick and subterfuge of American fascism. He adopted the name "George Pagnanelli," modeled his speech, clothes and gestures on those of a youthful Italian, became a trusted lieutenant of Yorkville's Joe McWilliams, and a salesman for Nazi agent George Sylvester Viereck's Flanders' Hall Publishing Company. He was made a captain (Grand Central District) in the underground Army of Christ, alias the Iron Guard, alias the Midtown Sporting Club ("interested in shooting rabbits, see?"), alias the American Phalanx (PAX for short "In Latin it means peace...
Grounds for the Supreme Court's action were technical: under amendments to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, the Government had tried ex post facto to bring the German-born American to account for political activities. Viereck, author and journalist, was sentenced to prison for two to six years, fined $1,500 and costs. Now his case is remanded to the lower court; he is under indictment on charges of sedition and conspiracy to undermine the morale of the armed forces...
Chief Justice Stone, who wrote this week's five-to-two* decision, sharply scolded the prosecuting attorney for his conduct during Viereck's trial. Said Stone: "In his closing remarks to the jury he (William Power Maloney, Special Assistant to the Attorney General) indulged in an appeal wholly irrelevant to any facts or issues in the case, the purpose and effect of which could only have been to arouse passion and prejudice. The United States Attorney . . . is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the law, the twofold aim of which is that guilt shall...