on. They are sixteen years old,
and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. They
fit it now."
When Ford was on the witness stand in a libel suit some fifteen years
ago and admitted his ignorance of matters with which even grammar
school children are familiar, the country laughed. His ignorance,
however, is his own affair, but when he takes no step to curb his
personal representative from working with secret foreign agents to
undermine a friendly government, it becomes a matter, it appears to
me, of importance to the people of this country and the Government of
the United States.
[Illustration: LEFT: American-made anti-Semitic sticker of a type
appearing with increasing frequency in recent times. RIGHT:
Title-page of the German edition of "The International Jew," by
Henry Ford, of which 100,000 copies have been distributed.]
FOOTNOTES:
[17] The man who forged the "Protocols" originally and who subsequently
confessed to having done so.
IX
_Nazi Agents in American Universities_
The universities are too important a training ground for Nazi agents
to ignore. A few professors in some of our universities have joined
the growing list of anti-democratic propagandists. Some of them are
German subjects and do not disguise their pro-Nazi bias; others carry
on their propaganda as a "scholarly analysis" of the Hitler
regime--with a fervor, however, that smacks of the paid propagandist.
German exchange students, too, studying at some of our universities,
are active in various efforts to draw native Americans within the
sphere of Nazi influence. Some of these students came here ostensibly
to study for degrees, but devote most of their time to spreading Nazi
ideology and meeting with secret Nazi agents and military spies. Such
was Prince von Lippe of the University of Southern California.
Von Lippe is not an American citizen as so many of the agents are.
With no visible means of support, he received expenses from a total
stranger--oddly enough, Count von Buelow whose home overlooked the
naval base in San Diego and who was constantly in conferences with
Nazi agents. It was to Count von Buelow, you recall, that Hermann
Schwinn brought Schneeberger as soon as he arrived on his way to
Japan, and von Buelow took him around while Schneeberger photographed
areas in the military and naval zone. A number of very secret
conferences were held while Schneeberger was on the West Coast, i
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