NAZI OFFICIAL
ARRESTED IN UNITED STATES. FAI.SE EXPLANATION OF ENTRY ALLEGED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON. May 30. The Attorney-General announced that the high-ranking Nazi party member. Dr Kurt Reith, was arrested in New York and taken to Ellis Island, pending deportation proceedings. He is charged with giving a false explanation of his entry into the United Slates. The Now Ymk "Herald-Tribune” on May 24 said Dr Rcilh, a German diplomat, was in New York attempting a now high-pressure task of economic appeasement. He was charged with the job of buying the rich Americanowned oil properties in ('astern Europe which at- present are almost valueless to Americans. It was said that lie arrived via Rio de Janeiro, where he calk'd a conference of Nazi diplomats in South America to plan greater Axis penetration.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1941, Page 5
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132NAZI OFFICIAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1941, Page 5
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