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Dickstein Won’t Head Nazi Investigation

December 31, 1933
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ship of the committee, Dickstein replied, “That matter, of course, will be left entirely to the discretion of the speaker. I shall not seek the chairmanship of the committee for myself.”

For more than three months Congressman Dickstein has been active in gathering information regarding Nazi activities in the United States. At private and public hearings before his committee in Washington he has introduced a score of witnesses who testified.

“I have gathered busheld of evidence,” Mr. Dickstein said yesterday. “Much of it will prove incriminating to the Nazi cause in the United States. When the time comes for exposure, I am sure that there will be little doubt as to the subversive operations of the Nazis undertaken here with a view toward instituting Hitlerite policies in this country and throwing the nation into a state of unrest comparable to that of Germany today.”

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