VIII
Henry Ford and
Secret
Nazi
Activities
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NE OF THE CHIEF NAZI propagandists in the United States
recently ran in the United States Senate primaries in Kan
sas and was almost nominated. He is Gerald B. Winrod, who
poses as a Protestant minister but has no affiliations with any
reputable church.
Winrod, even before he tried to get into the Senate, was one
of the most brazen of the Nazis Fifth Column operating in this
country.
He
has held secret consultations with
officials
in the
German Embassy in Washington and carries on his propaganda
under Fritz Kuhn s direction.
Shortly after Winrod returned from a mysterious trip to Ger
many and held an
equally mysterious long consultation at the
Nazi Embassy in this country (1935), he organized the Capitol
News and Feature Service, with offices at 209 Kellogg Building,
Washington. The "news service" supplied smaller papers
throughout the land with "impartial comments" on the national
scene. The Service was edited by Dan Gilbert, a San Diego news
paperman, and the material was sent free of charge (as is the
material sent to the Latin American countries from Germany
and Italy) It was of course, deliberately calculated to spread
.
pro-Hitler sentiment
and propaganda.
Few who read Winrod s
his activities. On March i,
publications realize the extent of
1937, Senator Joseph T.
Robinson
addressed the United States Senate on what appeared to him to
be "unfair propaganda" carried on by Winrod against President
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