No Agents Need Apply

WAR & PEACE

The U. S. heard some more last week on how the Nazi "strategy of terror" works. Back from a secret mission to London, where he had been sent by Secretary of the Navy Knox, Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan wrote a series of articles on Hitler's undercover storm-troops which were enough to make a U. S. citizen's eyes pop. Collaborating with Donovan, who once commanded the famed "Fighting 69th," now practices law, was Foreign Correspondent Edgar Mowrer.

The Nazi party, according to Donovan & Mowrer, spends $200,000,000 annually on an organization of some 4,000,000 agents. Said Donovan & Mowrer, Nazis require every German leaving the Reich to promise to report back everything seen & heard abroad. The great army of the political underworld includes private citizens, members of the Gestapo, the official Propaganda Ministry, the German Labor Front, the intelligence services of the German Army, Navy and Air Corps, officials in the embassies and consulates.

That the U. S. Government intends to get tough with such Nazi agents was indicated by developments last week:

> Out of the country scuttled two official Nazis, bound for Japan: Dr. Friedrich Ried, assistant German consul in New York City, subject of State Department inquiry, and Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick, German trade counselor to the U. S., indignant over being made an object of suspicion.

> Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, announced--in his own inimitably impersonal language--that the U. S. will no longer accept as accredited representatives of foreign countries any agents to whom other American nations have seen fit to give the boot.

> Under scrutiny were German tourist agencies, the German Library of Information in New York.

> In effect this week was the new Alien Registration Law, which requires every alien in the U. S. to register and submit to being fingerprinted. Failure to comply: a fine of $1,000, imprisonment for six months.

U. S. citizens meanwhile turned leery eyes on Communists, cracked down, purged, passed anti-Communist resolutions:

> The American Youth Congress' Emergency Peace Mobilization Conference, scheduled for this week in Chicago, was denounced as Communist-inspired. In Manhattan Joseph Curran, President of the Greater New York Industrial Union Council of the C. I. O., was rebuked by officers of the United Retail & Wholesale Employes of America, a C. I. O. affiliate, for soliciting funds for the Mobilization's support.

> New York State Federation of Labor moved to bar Communazis from official jobs in the organization and from membership in local unions.

> The American Federation of Teachers passed a resolution "utterly" condemning all dictatorships "whether of Nazi, Fascist or Communist origin."

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