9 APRIL 1942, Page 20

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1 Find Treason. By Richard Rollins. (Harrap. los. 6d.) ON a Sunday evening in 1912, a thousand Munich bourgeois gr hysterical over their beer mugs as a German-American spe proclaimed Germany's right and mission to rule over the U.SA beginning with those State, in which Americans of German des were already said to be in the majority. Mr. Rollins's book was a prominent member of the board which investigated an an American activities) shows how they have been working ever Si towards the same end. The parallel of the ants recurs to In where one point of entry is closed there is a pause for refere to Berlin after which the head of the column finds fresh crev through which the rest begin to pour. The Fichte-Bund, With slogan "For Universal Veracity," and its entire disregard Of ethical standards, accounted for the major part of the effort, no device was left untested. Along with the "Protocols of Elders of Zion," and copies of the Stunner and the Schve Korps, German liners brought " Bibles " in white covers whi on investigation, proved to be boxes containing pistols. Dot of bogus or moribund " associations " were whipped into in order to spread the Nazi- doctrine ; from time to time the bassy or Consulate General would officially claim immunity for creations as the "Library of Information." The Italians helped the Germans in the later phases, and eventually the rot could 0 be stopped—or driven further underground—by closing all G and Italian consulates in the U.S.A. In exposing the tireless act1 ties of the Germans in an extremely well documented book, Rollins has done us the service of unmasking the system of 1111 lectual infiltration which, though it rarely changes, fvecluen deceives. •