The Archive · 1940

Soldier Killed

(Continued from. page Seized by Agents of Dies Committee Washington, Sept. 18, Agents of the Dies Commi vestigating Un-American Act the United States announced night that they had raided the Washington offices of the German Transocean News Agency Various records wer seized from the German news agency's office, the announcement disclosed. The agency also was served with a subpoena to present its complete records before an early meeting of the Dies Committee.

Dies Committee agents a few weeks ago carried out a similar raid against the Transocean office in New York Cit; Meanwhile, the Secretar of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, indicated to the press yesterday that the State Department might take disciplinary action against the German consul general in New Orleans, Baron Edgar von Spiegel.

The State Department recently sent a note to the German Embassy here warning that foreign diplomats seeking to interfere with domestic politics in the United States would be ed to leave the country.

Mr. Hull, prompted by the publication of a letter alleged to have been written by von Spiegel to a German language newspaper in San Antonio, Texas, indicated that the State Department might take action against the German diplomat. In his alleged letter to the San Antonio newspaper. von Spiegel threatened its editors with stic action" if they continued to print "propaganda unfavourable to Germany."—United Press.

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