Prescott Freese Dennett, who was at the center of an elaborate scheme by which isolationist Congressmen such as Hamilton Fish III and Robert Rice Reynolds would make pro-German statements in the Congressional Record, was a publicist in Washington, D.C. when he was paid by German agent George Sylvester Viereck, a German-American poet, writer, and pro-German propagandist, to front (as Treasurer) the "Make Europe Pay its War Debt Committee" and later the "Islands for War Debt Committee".
Prescott Freese Dennett, who was at the center of an elaborate scheme by which isolationist Congressmen such as Hamilton Fish III and Robert Rice Reynolds would make pro-German statements in the Congressional Record, was a publicist in Washington, D.C. when he was paid by German agent George Sylvester Viereck, a German-American poet, writer, and pro-German propagandist, to front (as Treasurer) the "Make Europe Pay its War Debt Committee" and later the "Islands for War Debt Committee".