American Ambassador in Rome. Writing on "The
American Radio Traitors" in Harper's, October, 1943
(p. 401), Mr. William L. Shirer said:

" George Nelson Page was an introspective young-
ster who had spent most of his life with his relatives in
Italy. Unfortunately he elected to return home at the
height of the depression, and after going jobless for a
few months, and, according to him, being snubbed for
his poverty, he returned to Rome, took out his citizen-
ship papers, did his military service, and became an
Italian citizen. One night in Rome he poured out to
me his bitterness against America for treating him so
badly. Through his friendship with Ciano, he got a
high post in the Italian Propaganda Ministry (Minis-
try of Popular Culture, as it was called), but I imagine
he has not fared so well since the departure of his
friend and his friend's father-in-law."

Some of the same motives which entered in the apos-
tasy of Zolli--alleged poverty, snubs by his fellow-
countrymen, and an impulse to find security by becom-
ing a member of another group--are to be noted in the
case of young Page. A study of similar instances of
radio propagandists of the United States and Great
Britain in service to Germany and Italy indicates that
Zolli's apostasy is not an isolated phenomenon, con-
fined only to the people of Israel. It became especially
sensational because it concerned a Rabbi, and a so-
called "Chief Rabbi" in the bargain. For example,
John Amery, 33 year-old son of L. S. Amery, Britain's
former Secretary of State for India, has been charged
with treason as a renegade British broadcaster for the
Nazis. William Joyce ( Lord Haw-Haw) furnishes an-
other regrettable example of the confusion which the

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