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Transocean's U.S. managers, Dr. Manfred Zapp and Günther Tonn, were not in court. Two days before the trial opened in Washington, they were released from Ellis Island (in exchange for two U.S. newsmen- "detained" in Germany) to sail with a shipload of Axis consuls on the U.S.S. West Point (TIME, July 28). Nor could Transocean be compelled to pay its $1,000 fine, $15,000 court costs. For when this U.S. branch of Dr. Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry closed down officially on July 10, its till was neatly empty...
...services. At the same time, Berlin spent $164,652 to keep it going, other sums were contributed by the German Embassy, German consulates in the U.S. One of Transocean's chief functions, said Eric T. Winberg, a Swedish correspondent in the U.S., who got his information from Manager Tonn, was to broadcast news to South America which might be "harmful...
...Manhattan, glum Germans and sad-eyed Italians were going aboard the West Point. From Ellis Island, where he was taken two months ago for violating U.S. immigration laws, onetime German Minister to Austria Dr. Kurt Rieth was set free. Freed also were Dr. Manfred Zapp and Günther Tonn, U.S. managers of the Nazi Transocean News Service (now closed), who had failed to register with the State Department as foreign agents. The newsmen were to be exchanged for two U.S. newsmen, Jay Allen of North American Newspaper Alliance, Richard Hottelet of United Press, "detained" by the Nazis since March...
...Manfred Zapp and Giinther Tonn, officials of the Nazi Transocean News Service (TIME, March 24), arrested on deportation charges because they entered the U.S. as "treaty merchants" and did not maintain that status, were held at Ellis Island. The Government argument against bail reviewed the case of Baron Franz von Werra, Nazi flier, who put up $15.000 bail and ran away...
...German Government" in spreading Nazi propaganda; 3) concealed his underground role in publishing the German White Paper, the documents allegedly seized in Poland which implicated Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt as promising that the U. S. would go to war for Poland. Trans-ocean and Günther Tonn were indicted for complete failure to register...