Arrest and imprisonment of Nazis in the United States for minor infractions of law in reprisal for the jailing of Americans in the Reich is proposed today by Westbrook Pegler, syndicated newspaper columnist, in a cabled article from Vienna published in the New York World-Telegram.
Mr. Pegler’s scathing columns in recent weeks on Nazi treatment of Jews and other minorities have evoked considerable comment. He attended the Winter Olympic games at Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Commenting on the imprisonment of Karl Nisselbeck, an American citizen, for sedition. Mr. Pegler suggests that the United States force his release by “arresting ten German Nazis in New York or Hoboken and giving them everything that the book calls for–sentences to run consecutively, not currently, and without option of fine.”
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