Word: vierecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondent Bigart singled out for special mention the work of 25-year-old Corporal George Sylvester Viereck Jr., who stood in the mouth of the cave blasting away with his Garand rifle at oncoming Nazis while an artillery barrage thundered down on them from the rear. Said Corporal Viereck: "We had a feeling of animal joy as that stuff came down on the surrounding Germans...
Slight and blond, young Viereck was a onetime student at Harvard Law School, a graduate magna cum laude of Harvard College. There he had helped found and edit a new liberal monthly magazine, the Harvard Guardian...
...There were also George Deatherage, founder of the Knights of the White Camellia; Howard Victor Broenstrupp, alias the Duke of St. Saba, alias Count Cherep-Spiridovich, etc. Nine of the defendants were already interned or in jail. They arrived by police van. Among them: famed, shrewd Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck, good friend of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; the Silver Shirts' William Dudley Pelley; onetime Bundleader Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze...
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...