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...George Sylvester Viereck, 57, is a U.S. citizen who has made a career of spreading German propaganda. That is a perfectly legal way for a U.S. citizen to make money, if he tells the Government what he is doing and who is paying him. Because Citizen Viereck has apparently been less than frank with the Government, he was in trouble last week...
Born in Munich, Viereck arrived in the U.S. at the age of eleven, went to college, became a naturalized citizen, leaped into letters. His first small fame bloomed with publication of a book of poetry, grew a little brighter because of a story that his father was the bastard son of William I of Prussia, which would make him Kaiser Wilhelm's cousin...
More notoriety than fame accrued to George Viereck during World War I. After the sinking of the Lusitania by a U-boat, Viereck wrote: "The facts in the case absolutely justify the action of the Germans. Legally and morally there is no basis for any protest on the part...
...book was written by one Giselher Wirsing, editor of Munich's Muenchner Neueste Nachrichten. It was publicized as "a literary bombshell of Non-Intervention" by Prescott Dennett, Washington's one-man pro-Nazi Columbia Press Service. Its preface was by lynx-eyed George Sylvester Viereck, who gets $1,000 a month as "adviser and literary stylist" for the German Library of Information (official propaganda agents) and as representative for the Neueste Nachrichten. Questioned, Stylist Viereck first said, "I am in an uncommunicative mood," later admitted that he arranged for the book's publication...
...inquisitive pressmen, Stylist Viereck crooned: "I am not anti-British." In his preface, he grates that Britain's Parliament is "hagridden by a few families welded together by ties of gold and blood," that the Empire is "the greatest graft on earth, the juiciest melon that was ever cut." Since the British aristocracy has long prided itself on providing Britain with leaders the book has no great trouble in elaborating on this theme, adding even a genealogical chart...