OSS - AUSTRALIAN ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE WAR/ASSESSMENT OF GERMAN POLITICAL SITUATION AND STATUS OF JEWS/CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING GERMAN EMIGRE KURT HETZEL, 1942

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• Publication Date: December 17, 1942
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War Department
Military Intelligence Service
San Francisco Office
Room 546 - 74 New Montgomery Street
Telephone Garfield 6197
December 9, 1942
Mr. James Murphy
Office of Strategic Services
South Building
25th & E Streets, N. W.
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Murphy:
One of our officers inter-
viewed Mr. J. Edward Angly, war corres-
pondent for the Chicago Sun, who passed
through San Francisco a few days ago
returning from Australia.
The things that he stated and
upon which he seems positive seemed to
reveal some star%ing information regard-
ing the friction between our troops and
the Australian troops in Ausbralia,
think that Colonel Donovan
might be interested in reading this report.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Carroll T. Harris
CARROLL T. HARRIS
Lieut, Colomol, U. E.
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MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DIVISION
WAR DEPARTMENT GENERAL STAFF
G-2 REPORT AUSTRALIA
Source and Degree of Reliability:
Mr. J. Edward Angly, war correspondent for the CHICAGO SUN,
who has been in Australia since the latter part of February,
1942t He left there December 2 and arrived at Hamilton Field
California, on December 4.
nI arrived in Australia just prior to MacArthur's coming
there to take command of the troops. The Australians had
just lost their entire Eighth Division in toto at the fall of
Singapore. When you stop to consider that proportionately
in population this would be the equivalent of the Americans
losing some nineteen and a half divisions, you can have some
understanding of the Australian bitterness against the
British at that time. They felt that the British attitude
at Singapore indicated that they weren't going to do any-
thing to help the Australians.
"Thus began the great Anzac-American honeymoon. The
Americans arrived at a psychological time and seemed to offer
the security which the Australians had previously looked to
the British navy to provide. But like all honeymoons, the
Illusions are collapsing, discord is setting .in, daily con-
tact is becoming antagonistic and the Australians are gradually
reverting to their 'first love', the British. The British
were quick to perceive the growing rift between the Austral-
ians and the Americans and have taken advantage of every
opportunity to strengthen their own position. This they are
accomplishing by losing no opportunity to 'wave the flag'
whenever possible and by placing strong vigorous men in
strategic positions who leave no doubt in the minds of those
with whom they come in contact that the British have the situ-
ation well in hand - in fact, they are in control of it!
"The Australian people are not yet reconciled to the
fact that they are engaged in a total war. They still com-
plain about the severe restrictions on their lives due to
the war effort. Their army remains sloppy in appearance and
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the discipline is poor. While their volunteers have
distinguished themselves in certain instnnces, on the whole
they have been pretty unsatisfactory as filed soldiers.
At present the only division abroad, the ninth, is expeet(A
to come home shortly from Egypt.
'The Australian high command is torn by potty jealousl-
the professional soldier vs. the citizens in uniform. A
serious situation exists in Western Australia where Gordon
Bennett patrols about a million square mils of territory and
must coast line with only one divi:ition of men and a few
-spare parts', or attached units.
"The RAAY feel that they treult, receivint cair treht-
ment at the hands of the Americans?they aren't gottin6
enough of the quota of planes being deliverod nor are the
positions assigned to them the pick of the situation as
they would like to have it.
"Australian troops resent the fact that the Amortcans
are better dressed, more affluent, and by reason of their
manners, appearance, etc., seem to h/lvo tilken it fnfr
share of the 41ustralian womanhood. the
main caut15 or the
friction between the two bodies of troops may be said to
be caused by the following factors; (a) higher wares of the
American troops, (b) the American's oex appeal (c) the
fact th4t the Australian Militia, which comprises the
greatest part of the army, can't be sent beyond huntrnlian
mandated territory. The Americans know this und are ftelined
to 'rib' the Australianb about it.
"However, I will say that friction anon the troops
of the two countries, like those among the higher ninking
Officers with desk jobs and ambitions unconnocted with
patriotism, are most evident in large communities far rrem
the smell of cordite -- once the scene of bstt3e is reached,
the two bodies of troops get along exceedingly well
together.
"There is a marked resentment on the part of ihe
business and political. leaders in Australia because of the
highhanded manner in which the Americans sometimes move
in, commandeer office space etc., and then decide in a
few weeks' time that they will move aomedlere
should reOly handle tliwse matters a, little,morg,pm
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where they have .been accustomed to doing business for years.
While it is a necessary action they should be a little more
thoufhtful about it.
"Beasley, the s'upply tAdministrator, has blen devoting
much of his time on the labor situation, but it has not
improved much to speak of. We must still uso American
and Australian troops to unload cargoes at times. The
Australians still refuse to work in the rain nnd still take
timv out for their tua. The looting going on at these
docks is a national disgrace for the Australians. The
longshoremen aren't searched as they leave the docks and
donsequently get away with a lot of stuff. A laborer can
be caught, convicted, sentenced, serve his time, at the
expiration of Which his union will accept him Vor work
the same job where he was caught looting.
"Another factor which has caused much diNention and
antipathy between the Australians and Americans 18 the
cigarette situation. Our troops receive their cigarottos
duty-free, about one quarter of the cost the Aussien muv.t
pay for theirs. citing our higher pay, they have made
this quite a bone of contention. Australian soldiers
picketed MacArthurls hotel until our cantoens were openod
to them. When this occurred, it was quite difficult for
the Americans to get into their own canteons, as they
were so crowded with the Anzacs. This VniN finmlly stopped
by the statement thnt it was against Australian law to
sell them the cigarettes duty-frt:e0 eonsc:quontly, much
ill feeling developed over the method in which this whole
thing was handled. The Australian troops resent it very
much and seem to take this resentment out on the Amorlwin,
military police whenever the situntion offers.
"Last Thursday and Yriday, November 26 and 27, in
Brisbane, this resentment flared into the open. Un o of
our MP's corrected an American soldier who was with some
Australians who took offense at this reprimand to their
friend and began to argue with the MP' s. F3oon they iiad
knocked him down and wiled him to such an oxtent thn.t he
drew his gun and fired soldiers from both countries
joined in, several shots were fired by both sides and
neveral men c both sides were injured from gunfire and
beating. This fracas occurred in the evening and as a
result the blankout restrictions in Brisbane had to he
relaxed and the city lit up the next evening to prevent
any soldiers of either side being attacked by the opposite,
reeling on both sides ren rather high and a sharp word was
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all that was necessary to start a fight between members of
the two armies. From my observation, this ugliness is
spreading in the larger garrison towns.
"There is some friction between our negro and white
troops from both countries, but it seems to be diminishing.
It actually started with members of our own forces, although
their presence is a direct refutation of the 'white Austra-
lia' pclicy in effect over there for so many years. These
troops have done an excellent job but it may have been a
psychological error to send them over there. Some of the
Australian women will go around with them and this fact
causes much resentment among the Australians.
"The supply situation in Australia itself seems to
be progressing smoothly, but I know of one Lieutenant
Colonel of the Air Corps in New Uuinea whosehame I won't
mention who estimated as far back as last April that he
would need certain parts for periodic maintenance of his
planes and placed Ills orders accordingly. At present, he
has some twenty planes grounded because these parts have
not arrived -- and he ordered last April!
111 have heard that our boats in the 'small boat section'
are easy prey to Jap planes as they don't have sufficient
anti-aircraft protection aboard. I'm thinking of one
particular instance off Buna Gona about two weeks ago where
the Japs bombed and sank five of these boats with little
trouble. I remember this ilstance because of the Vact
that Major General Harding was aboard one of them and was
compelled to swim ashore."
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MANIENJELIQUOILIMIUMI
You zay find of interest the enclosed memorandum
of a conversation on November 27 between Mr. George
Baniotis, neilymarrived Press Attach of the Greek
Debassy, and Professor B. D. Meritt of this office.
In sending copies of this memorandum also to
Wallace Murray and Ray Atherton at the State Department
have writtens
"As you are aware, Professor Neritt is well
known in the AmericanwGreek world as a scholar and
friend. It was in this capacity that Mr. Haniotis
talked to him."
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Embasay in Washington, spoke very'freely'about his own political
cwt. .tions. Hi has had a long journalistic experience subsequent
to his 'participation in the first world war. He spent a year in
the United States (1913-1914), wont to France at the outbreak of
the war and joined the Foreign. Legion. Fighting through the mar in
the uniform of a French soldier, he returned to Greece and partici-
pated in the campaigns of Asia Minor, coming out of Smyrna as a
refugee after the disaster of 1922. Mr. Haniotis was born in
Smyrna and received his original education in English at the
American College at Smyrna.
As a journalist in Athens, he was attached to the Athenian
newspaper Mt Injaat and wrote articles signed GEO, a device
which he used as a pen name. From 1939 until shortly before the
German attack on Greece, he was Athens correspondent of the United
Press. His sympathies have been consistently republican $o far
as Greek politics are concerned, and he was at one time put in
jail by Mauxiadakis under the Dictatorship of John Metaxas because
of sondizg out a UP dispatch praising the democratic spirit of
the Greek people.
Mr. Haniotis knew Polymeros Moschovitis in Athens* They
lore members of the same newspapermen's union, but they saw more
of eadh other in Egypt after' the retirement of the Greek Government-
I*0.1xile from Crete to Cairo. Mr. Haniotis spoke at considerable
length of? the harsh treatment given to Moschovitis by the Greek
Government-inExile, but he 'blamed both the Greek Government and
the British Government for his deportation to Bombay* Ranictis
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himself claims that at the time he vont to Egypt he vas resolved
to forget internal politics and devote himself solely to working
in the interests of the Greek people. He made this point clear
to Prime Minister Tsouderos and to Minister of Information, Mr.
Michalopoulos before he accepted his position as Press Attache
at the Embassy in Washington. Coming to this country from Egypt,
he stopped at Buenos Aires where Maniadakis is now in residence
and paid a call on this former member of the Mets* s Government.
He explains that Namiadakis apologised to him for having put him
in jail and when asked why he did it, said that it was done merely
as a matter of political expediency.
Here in the United States he made his first contact with
Mr. Theofanides at New York. His persona/ opinions of Thcofanides
sem to be that he is somewhat aloof, that he feels excessively
his own importance, and that he is not particularly able.
Although hill official position is that of press attaoh? at
the Greek Embassy, he is in *harp of the Ministry of Information
with offices in the Fairfax. Hotel during the abvenoe In London of
the Minister, XV. iliehalopoulost who leaves on November 30,
probably to bed gone until next April.
Mr. liniotio feels that he has not been taken in to the
family of the Greek Embalm. Soso days ago at an affair at the
Ihtricish Legation, the Minister, Mr. Diamantopoulost smiled
invitations for members of his staffs oven including an
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on for Mr. Haniotis himself. Mr. Haniotis
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does-not have the confidono? of the Greek
-partly because of his outspoken disregard for
taffiliations, Mr. Haniotis has entered into relations
of friendship with Mr. Sophooles Venizelos, with Mr. Basil Je
Vlavianosi, with Mr. Polymer** Moschovitis, as Telles with
partisans and friends of the Greek Government-inmaxile; and he
reports conversation with the Greek Ambassador in which Xis
Excellency has expressed his inability to believe that anyone
who is a friend of such a man as Basil Vlavianos could have the
good intsrests of the Greek people at heart.
With respect to Mr. Moschovitis, Mr. Haniotis has repeatedly
told members of the Greek Government that they ought not to put
themselves in a position of being accused of persecuting him for
political conviction. In one interview which, Mr. Haniotis had
with Mr. Leigh White, he was equally frank in telling Mr. White
that he thought his attack:upon the Xing as published in 221
Mau early last summer was most untimely.
inrther with respect to Polymeros Moschovitis, Mr. Haniotir
reports that when in Athens, .he was party to a scheme for
engineering a democratic revolution, which had as its object the
establisimont of a republican government under General Plastiras.
itr.BAniotis vas fairly outspoken in expressing hia distrust
of the British. Be feels that they exerSise an undue influence
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irOiraiseddplapproval of the British
la whemAltinier Tiouderos wished to send
a t.3.gr$Ief ?Oigratulations to It:miler Stalin for the successful
detitillie,0'ifolaow. It is his cOnviotion that the British expect
thiGreek-Governmentmlii-axile to follow strictly British political
lines, not necessarily even the lines of policy of the United
Nations, and he personally resents this attitude of interference
on the part of the Britishand hopes very much that Greece in the
future may leek for guidance and protection from the United States.
One gathers from Mr. Haniotis that Greece will need protection from
her friends as well as her enemies. Furthermore, he accuses the
British of double-dealing, saying that it was they who egged on
Moschovitis and himielf to oppose Tsouderos in Egypt. For his own
part he refused to take any part in the attack on the Greek
Governmentwinloftile.
Be reports a conversation between Premier Tmouderos and Mr.
Anthony Mtn in which lir. Tsouderos raised the question of the
postmwar settlement of Cyprus. Mr. lden'im said to have terminat3d
the e4inversat*on with the remarkl,"Sir, I will not be blackmailed."
Tft spite of this attitude of the British Foreign Office, Mr.
Raniotli feels -that the question of Cyprus will probably be raised
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Here is the statement that I took down from
Mr. Boyn concerning wham I talked with you two weeks
ago.
I am convinced that Mr. Heyn is perfectly
loyal to this country and that he has a pretty wide
knowledge of Germany and the German people. He may be
a little conceited in his views, and he says frankly
that he would not expect that you or anyone in Washington
would agree with his suggestions, but since I requested
him to give them to me, here they are.
He is available for a conference, if anyone
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'411iiessador Dodd, I remmelier he said to me: "Letts
Alriaifidential talk. me what you think is the
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United Stater. I think jt is the Jewish question." I replied:
*That is what I same to talk about. I agree with you that
that is the fundamental diffioulty." Dodd said: "I find that
Hitler refuses to disouss the Jewish question so what oan we
dot We must be realistic)." I remember saying: "People of
wrery *lass show true friendship for the United States. I
have discussed all this with Louis Luokner."
I had also disoussed the situation with a leader
of the Nazi party who introduced me to a direotor of the
Dresden Bank who aoted as the liaison men for the Government.
Re agreed that the Jewish question was the oruoial problem
in Amer*osnabOerman relations.
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from his Ones askinglili to oome there.
_rea.lood his, onisil X found that he had been ?allied to
or and teld te corm back on a later day. Man
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Nee bask a third time asiid this ti.ise was told that kibbentrop
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end all
other problems including the ;swish problem.
Vintative plan to allow the Jewish merohants
iiirtitendis? needed in the United States and sell it
trirs'end roost?e foreign exchange and that they would then
be allowed to leave Germany and aolleot this and not return.
'Certain Danko worked ?a the plan and finally made 5,000,000
marks available for the undertaking.
I gave a dinner at Berlin through the American
Chamber of Commeroe for my friend, the direoicor of the Dresden
BS*. Re and I both made addresses at this dinner end I was
surprised at the reoeption I got. I made several other ad.
dresses under the auspices of the Chamber of Oommeroe and
talked very generally aim% the trnitied States, but only in-
oidentally on the nwieh problem, but many :ewe oame and
called On se.?-? ?
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inelading4,70think, 6.....:6,1411418. I also went up and
-with'Bemator Borah to tell him this situation but he
caw that he was no longer Chairman of the Foreign Affairs
ititto. and that I ought to go and see Secretary Hull or
the President.
I dropped the whole matter because at that time I
was financially edbarrassed and I had been doing all this at
isy own expense.
/ am telling you all this so that you will see why
I take the position that I do as to the scope and limitations
of propaganda lt this time. I found that even the :ewe in
Germany werelin general, bitterly opposed to the methods that
these Jews in New York were using to help them. They told me
that it was just pouring oil on fire and that these attacks
on Hitler were hurting them. I recall a meeting at Frankfurt
where I discussed the situation with certain :ewe and asked
them what could be done. They suggested that they controlled
60 privent of the German wine exports and that if the :ewe in
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York, but that instead, these New York
goods and preventing their brethren
Pang.
AOliat I think can be done effectively
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44,411Mny, although not entirely blameless, but they have
4.04t one idea today, namely, revenge. This is especially
time of the Polish dims.
2. Same people think that we can count on the Com-
munists of Germany for support. There were formerly 6,000,000
of these. What has become of them? Well, there are a few
thousand in concentration camps but the rest are now solidly
behind Hitler. They were weaned away. Goebbels was disliked
by many Germans but he is one of the brainiest of men and was
the one who, in Berlin and Hamburg, weaned over these Commun-
ists to Hitler's side, so I exolude any possibility of doing
anything through this group.
3. I oonsider that the absolute limit of effective
propaganda is along lines which will make the Germans realize
that many hero syripathize and want them to be free to run their
awm_government, but the moment you go further and try to attack
-theireXisting government, they are going to resent it. Words
oitti4O0hip w14 sake appeal but you cannot diotate to the
,1141#4140.0pla or 4$46010$ to or tell theh what they ought to do.
,r0404441 Or tkot sort: in my judgment, completely fails.
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4. fou dannot rely on eabotage in Germany. The
Gelman is fundamentally a law-abiding person. I believe
that any fifth oolumn method in Germany would be hopeless.
Again and again Germans said to me - "Give us time and we
will dispose of Hitler in our own way." Hitler was about
played out, in my :udgment, when this war broke,and the
German people will dispose of him in their own time.
Never forget, the great majority of Germans of all
()lasses are fundamentally friendly to the United States, find
the day that Hitler told them that they were going to have
to fight Amerioa was a very sad day throughout Gormnily,
I am positive.
Dated: November 2, 1942
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j? Downs DA TI November 9, 19142
Ithe request for issipnent of Mrs. Hanel Haight as telephone
operator brings up serforal questione moaning the classification of
positions. Mrs. Haight at preeent is OAIN4, 040, talephone operator,
*Oh le the salary and grade assigned to telephone operators handling
low diatoms, local information and/or secretarial eery-loos. The
poeitdon proposed for Mrs. Weft in your office would also fall into
t?iIMsitosory. Wrier, with the addition of clerical work in
section with appointments and other office functions, this position
mold be allocated in 0044. 11420.
72 yrs, west is roaloostod to 004, 11800 as requested, it
presente quite a difficult morale problem in regard to the present
tele.*** operators who are now classified CAM, $.14140, with exemption
of Amiateat Chief Operator and the Chief Operator who are Case
4114, 4441Pospootive37. The Olvi3 tiervioe emission has only recently
rastemid #11 televisess operator position* in the Pectoral Oovernment and
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I gatherYthat One of the partisular activities of Mr.
kW. O.iimmitttion Wait to 00110ot and digest all information that
ho,001044essibly4 obtain- With irigird to who b was going on in the
letberlinds( kit Ildiem.)- :He ildmitted at the present time this
Y117 ,diitioult task and the 4rop of information extremely
Mei" Mid, however, that oertain deductions were possible
frewthe Monitoring of the broadcasts, and there were a few other
sources 1'41'3110gs to Oen.
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to width the Zapsuisse had been able to get the oil
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mind and in order that
there be official Kees-ins to the whole -
hearted000peratiou, whieh me intend to give
your Wive' it is suggested that the man *tom
100,0044_out to take,OhorWof Research and
AnalieWshould have a letter of introduction
.to ColOneI,Ahrends,frOm G.$ and, in addition,
04:-60014 ;write a letter tO Colonel Ahrends
aikim him to -lend_ aid and assistanoe to your
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