“link”head Keeps Statuettes of Nazi Guard in His Home As ‘work of Art’

Sir Barry Domville, founder and president of “The Link” the organization denounced by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare as a Nazi propaganda tool said today that the portrait of Adolf Hitler hanging in his home did not necessarily mean he admired the Fuehrer and added that the he kept a statuette of a Nazi guard only as a “work of art.”

Sir Barry’s statement was made to newspapermen after the London News-Chronicle, Liberal daily, had published a picture of him sitting at his desk, flanked by Hitler’s picture and the statuette of the Nazi in the uniform of the S.S. (Hitler’s elite guard).

“The fact that I have a portrait of Hitler at my house does not necessarily signify that I am his admirer, ” Sir Barry declared. “I met Hitler only once, three years ago, but I am not going to say what I think of him. I naturally have political opinions, as does any intelligent man. I will only say that I belong to no party. I keep a statuette of a Nazi guard in my home because it’s a pretty work at art.”

The Nazi-Chronicle also published a statement by Cecil Dixon, of Leeds, former vice-president of the Link, in which he declared that Dr. Bluhm, a ranking officer of the Anglo-German Club in Berlin, had told him the organization was supported by the Nazi Government.