WAR & PEACE: Citizen Viereck

WAR & PEACE

George Sylvester Viereck, 57, is a U.S. citizen who has made a career of spreading German propaganda. That is a perfectly legal way for a U.S. citizen to make money, if he tells the Government what he is doing and who is paying him. Because Citizen Viereck has apparently been less than frank with the Government, he was in trouble last week.

Born in Munich, Viereck arrived in the U.S. at the age of eleven, went to college, became a naturalized citizen, leaped into letters. His first small fame bloomed with publication of a book of poetry, grew...

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