HITLER & REWARD

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1940, Page 2

HITLER & REWARD

V AAIERICAN’S OFFER , " AVIDE DISCUSSION CAUSED • NEW YORK, May 9. The olFer of a . group of Pittshurj people to pay a reward of 1,093,00' dollars or the capture of Hitler i being widely discussed in the press an< -over the radio. The reactions run th gamut of wrath, ridicule, amusement and seriousness. ' Some'members of Congress though it was an excellent idea. Others de scribed it as a war-mongering plan especially Air Hamilton Fish (Repub liean—,-New York), who suggested th iussibii.it ;of Nazi reprisal on basis that President Roosevelt was ai'd ing and abetting the enemy. Air John D-. Dingell (DemocratAlichigan) applauded the idea. Anothe grouj>. Vlioiild be" formed, lie said, t double the sum. and to offer the rewar for “the. stuffed hide of Hitler.” Official '. circles in AVashington genei ally' regarded the idea as' embacrassin and absurd. Diplomatic a nth or i tit pointed out' that tbe United State neutrality proclamation . prevents an; one in the United State's from partic pating. in the war, directly or ii directly. The German Embassy treated tli matter as a joke.