Probe Crippled Nazis Here, Congress Told

The Nazi movement in the United States was perceptibly stemmed as a result of the Congressional investigation of un-American activities, Congress was informed today in a report submitted to it by Representative John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, committee chairman.

Asserting that the movement had made considerable headway prior to the institution of the investigation, the report claimed the disclosures made in the course of thirty-one executive and public hearings in Washington, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Asheville, N. C., and Newark, N. J., have caused Nazi efforts in this country to disintegrate.

CONDEMNS PROPAGANDA

“From the evidence taken by this committee in its investigation of Nazism in the United States,” the report said, “it develops that all kinds of efforts and influence, short of violence and force, were used to obtain its desired objective, which was to consolidate persons of German birth or descent, if possible, into one group, subject to dictation from abroad.”

The committee recorded its condemnation of the establishment and the propagation of Nazi principles in this country.

“We are unalterably opposed to any individual or any group of individuals seeking to bring about discord among the people of this country, either as a reprisal or as a means of changing our form of government,” the report, a twenty-four-page pamphlet, said.

HITS ‘PUTSCH’ PLAN

The Wall Street “putsch” plan revealed by Major General Smedley D. Butler, was also assailed.

Quoting a letter from Gerald C. MacGuire, who was alleged to have suggested the formation of a Fascist army under the leadership of General Butler, on the rise of the Croix de Feu in France, the McCormack committee declared “any efforts based on lines as suggested in the foregoing and leading off to the extreme right, are just as bad as efforts which would lead to the extreme left.”