GERMAN EMBASSY SALE

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24743, 7 December 1945, Page 5

GERMAN EMBASSY SALE

PURCHASERS FROM NEW POLITICAL PARTY (Rec. 8 p.m.) . LONDON, Dec. 6. "The Federal Socialist Party made its first public appearance at the last day of th>; sale of furniture from the German Embassy in London, where members attended to bid for- five photographs of Hitler." says the "Daily Mail." , "Six members, three of whom are former undergraduates, had £SOO raised 'from nowhere' with which to buy the pictures, which are 'strategically valuable to the movement' Their mission was a failure, as the photographs were withdrawn from sale. One member, Mr John Wood, aged 23, said the aim was 'to build up a federation of Europe against the mighty blocs of Russia and America.' He added: 'I cannot say whether we regard Germany as the centre of that federation'." • % The Ministry of Works withdrew the pictures of Hitler from the sale of the German Embassy effects. The Ministry concluded from the public reaction to the sale of Hitler's bust that it would be better to withhold the pictures.

One of the agents at to-day's sale was acting for a businessman who had instructed him to go to any figure to prevent articles falling into the hands of Fascist sympathisers.

The sale of the contents of the Embassy was completed, with the receipts totalling £70.926 sterling.

U.S. Relations WUh Hungary.— lt has been announced in Washington that diplomatic relations with Hungary have been resumed with the appointment of Mr Arthur Schoenfeld as Minister. —Washington, December 5.