Word: transocean
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...jury in a U.S. District Court last week found Germany's Transocean News Service guilty of having failed to register with the State Department as the agent of a foreign government...
...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...
...neither a mock trial nor a failure. As a counterblast against Axis propaganda, it was an opening gun in the War of the America's (see p. 12). As a revelation of Nazi methods, it was worth any amount of money in Latin America, where a branch of Transocean is still active...
...Month Men. From its founding in 1914 (after Britain cut Germany's transatlantic cables) until Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, Transocean was a reputable news agency. Then the Nazis put it under control of the Foreign Office and the Propaganda Ministry...
Kurt Sell, plump-cheeked, well-liked Washington correspondent for D.N.B., Germany's official press service, appeared last week as a witness for Transocean, told how its propaganda activities began. In 1933, said Newsman Sell, Dr. Hans Luther, German Ambassador in Washington, asked him how Transocean's service could be distributed to German-language papers in the U.S. that could not afford an expensive news agency. Sell suggested subsidizing the service, charging a nominal fee of $1 a month, payable at the nearest German consulate...