An article by George Sylvester Viereck, considered one of this country’s staunchest supporters of the Hitler government, has been rejected by Liberty, the weekly magazine, it was learned yesterday.
The article was to have been called, “What Hitler Wants From the Jews.” It was a reply to an analysis published in last week’s issue, called “What the Jews Want From Hitler” and written by Arthur Garfield Hays, New York attorney who sat in at the Leipzig trial of the four men charged with setting fire to the Reichstag.
Viereck wrote the article with the understanding that it was to have been published along with that of Hays’ to show both sides of the German-Jewish controversy and perhaps to establish a basis for settlement of all difficulties.
Liberty’s editors did not state whether or not Viereck’s article savored too highly of Hitlerite propaganda.
“It did not come up to the mark,” a spokesman said, “so we sent it back to him. We did not pay him for writing it.”
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