Conant Claims German Nazism Dead

Nazism is completely dead, the legend of Hitler is gone, German Ambassador and President Emeritus James B. Conant '14 said in a television broadcast Monday night with Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Neiman Foundation. Conant was back in this country for the first time in eleven months.

Conant flew back to Germany yesterday, following consultations with President Eisenhower and the State Department.

Discussing the new German army, Conant said, "All the Germans are deeply concerned that the new German Army be established under democratic control. Some of them read their past with apprehension as to what a military group could do if it is not controlled under a history of a democratic society such as we have, such as England has."

"I can't imagine," Conant said, "that even a right radical movement in Germany in the future would use the symbols or slogans or legends of the Nazis. I think that they have been thoroughly discredited."