VIERECK SPY TRIAL
EVIDENCE CONCLUDED
(Rec. 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 3. Evidence for the defence in the George Sylvester Viereck spy trial concluded today. The prosecutor brought out during the examination of Sheppard Butler, executive editor of "Liberty" magazine in 1937, the fact that Viereck wrote that he and Representative Hamilton Fish would be glad lo write an article on the necessity for a war referendum. In a memorandum Viereck stated that he had had a long talk with Mr. Fish concerning legislation requiring a popular referendum for declarations of war. In the same letter Viereck objected to a series of articles published in "Liberty" in which a former housemaid exposed Hitler's Berchtesgaden household and expressed admiration for Hitler's dynamic qualities. Viereck said he had had the honour of meeting "a man who out-Napoleons Napoleon." "I have studijd his character," he said, "and I could not reconcile the vicious statements made by a spurious housemaid with Hitler's personality." Counsel for the defence, protesting against the admission of the foregoing and against the non-admission of other evidence, accused the presiding Judge of prejudice.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1942, Page 8
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