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[ Under Cover BY JOHN ROY CARLSON Ruwl. the BPear_head of Anti nemocratic Crusade With Powerful influence Throughout the Country 11 CHAPTEP. 9 r,c influence wieloed by t h e in oui political dissensions , t not be underestimated. The y :;'d was the spear-head of the Democratic crusade and set ,-,attern for the Christian Front ' u1 |K, silver Shirts and count ?"« others like them Viewed over ! vears. the swastika-heilmg pe d' was a temporary expediency „ed to arrest public opinion and enthrall the admiration of trus sed and simple-minded Ameri cans in the lower classes of our cqc let'v. " The Deutsches Ausland Institut .-nrched a two-pronged pincer at "' k on our Democracy. Leader o of the first ‘ fifth column” “as entrusted >o German-Ameri I ,‘.1S w’m'e the second was en m listed to carefuLy selected can ti.dates of non-German “one hun , d ppf i-ent American” ancestry “‘the Edmondsons and Pelleys— 'hose job it was b'terally to trans [ late Na”i propaganda into English : terms and serve it as “patriot i to those who would swallow j jj’ as such. The American wing f the Nazi psychological fifth column penetrated Park Avenue society or business and industrial cireies’ and eventually projected Itself deep into the halls of Con gress. \ liorue oi tac!t and forth. -Consul Herbert Scholz directed operations from Boston- Gerhard Alois Westrick ,,,r;6d the New York area: from ,;s home overlooking the San Di e o naval base. Count von Bulow managed the vital Western coast ,v;.|, wily Fritz Wieaemann, San Francisco consul, who was finally expelled. Hans Benchers. Freder ic’- oraeger. Nazi clergymen like ‘.M Rev. S G. vor Bosse fur v-ned Nazism trom the pulpit. At (v’affifcia university Professor pipjrph E Auhagen and at Wit college in Ohio, Frederick v Krueger propagated the Nazi in an ex'ensve Nazi net j-v that permeated every cor , - of America and made its in f 'ence fe11 in every class of our , -pl. economic and political life. It was the boom period for es pionage in which the boats of the Famburg American 1 ine played a I----linen' role. Dr Colin Ross, a Nazi of Scot ancestry, toured ,'i m-ica photographing our indus tries. harbors, power plants, and rr’lying Hitlerites ir. our key cit ies. “Germans in America, too, ha-, e experienced then Versailles,” he wrote “A man will arise and I raFy them, a German — Thomas ft Pa-'ne.' 55 antagonized most Americans by its swasfika-heiling phase that or r ? canie from Berlin to cut out ■ pr'l'c singing of the Horst Wes sel hied, ‘helve the Sam Browne belts and marching boots and “go American.” The party line chang ed as a bucket of reO-white-and bl"e naint was applied to make overnight “patriots’’ of the Nazi. The Deutseher Weckruf became I T’eo Free America. And no long r nrofessing to convert the Unit ed States to National - Socialism, the Bund became nationalist and iHationis*. showed great concern for the welfare oi tne Republic and adopted the slogan: America F’’rst When Fritz Kuhn was jailed for misusing party funds. Kunze took his place and promptly identified himself with the great Carl Schurz in 'eaflets titled Rlood Is Honor and Germany. America’s Great Friend Jn Need. “The spirit of ; George Washington must never die.” the Bund screamed. “To none is his memory dearer than to Americans of German origin.” Disguising itself as the Manner chor (Male Chorus) the Los An gles Bund attended a meetin’g of the League to Save America First, managed by T. V/ Hughes. After the meeting had started the slorm noubadours unfolded packages re sembling sheet musie and distrib : ’ned them to the audience. It was Nazi literature. The Bund-that is the Nazi arm "f the same old Bund—went un eiground to plot sabotage and espionage, while its “American” ''mg gushed out in patriotism and njca.ized with native fascists. Bas tl (.■ anti-catholic, the Bund went for “Christianity,” spon 0 Christian American” ■ - ‘ -.‘S. and frothed at the “per* WL-.°n o! Christians" by a hand ■■.’( ericau Jews Most laugh able were attempts to “prove that Ghrist was not a Jew.” Kuhn said Christ was an Armenian! With the change from the Hitler salute to spurious Americanism, and Christianity, the Bund spirit penetrated deeper into native American strata. Taking advan tage of the depression years and making expert use of anti-Semi tism, Roosevelt-hate and the pit t^ng of group against group, the Bund began to radiate and to sy Phon its influence in the mass Christian - American - Patriotic” movement. The promotion of na tive American “fronts” as a screen to Bund activity became standard practice, backed by illimitable capital and the extensive Nazi network of organization. With those native fascists it could not control, the Bund collaborated. The law laid down by the Aus land Institut was enunciated by Fritz Kuhn in the Deutscher Weck ruf on his return from Germany: “One thing must be considered quite definitely. Wc must impel American politics with a pure Ger man feeling. We must demand from the candidates that they, above all else, must always use their influence that America, un der all circurm tunces, must keep out of any European war. That is the greatest service that we can show Germany. “Our task is first the consoli dation of all German racial groups and second, the acauisition of in fluence for a subsequent show of power in American politics. This second part is mcst important. American Germandorr must be come dynamic, turn against its adversaries. Our battlefield is rfght here, and nere is where we must fight it out.” xne mind was only one arm ol the Nazi octopus—the “radical and revolutionary” arm of the scheme for America's conquest. Fantastic as it may sound, Nazi leaders who had already carved the world for themselves, had actually mapped out a “German Lebensraum” in the midv\ est which planned to have its own autonomous laws, press and political representatives, and would some day establish its in dependence — the identical tactics which Conrad Henleir was assign ed to follow in the Sudetenland. The final aim was to be the re alization of unser (out) Amerika— a German America! Questionnaires were actually sent out to midwestern German societies to determine the number of votes controlled by German ra cial elements. It was the wild Nazi dream to convert German American communities into solid German racial blocs (Volksge meinschaft) which would vote to elect pro-Nazi officials to office, and thus serve the role of a “con stitutional” fifth column. Hence, the ddiligent attempts of Nazi agents to establish xteutscne Volks gruppe (national groups) and in still in them racial solidarity and pan-cjermamsm. The German-American National Alliance, with headquarters in Chi cago served the midwest as a “re spectable" front for Hitlerite views. Throughout its 350 units, the Alliance vigorously promoted Die E.'inheTsfront — the United Front” (of “American Germandom race-conscious, poetically unified and economically secure”). It sup ported the America First Commit tee and exhorted members to “as sist financially and morally” all isolationist, and appeaser causes. Die Einheitsfront succeeded in inducing the Chicago Censorship Board to refuse the exhibition of the movie Pastor Hall showing Nazis in an unfavorable light. But it applauded Sieg im Westen (Vic tory in the West) which adver tised Nazi military power. (Copyright 1943 by E. P. Dutton & Co.. Inc. Next installment: Flan ders Hail. -V-— The leather in a pair of men s cxfords would make an officer s pistol holster. Heads Invasion Major. Gen. Roy S. Geigei (above) a resident of Pensacola Fla., has been named to succeec Lieut. Gen. Alexander A. Vande grift, as commander of the Alliec forces invading Bougainville Is land in the South Pacific. Vande grift led the invasion of Guadal canal. (AP Wirephoto) HIGHWAY CHIEF WILL QUIT POST D. B. McCrary Will Soon Step Down As Acting Chairman RALEIGH, Nov. 15—UP)—D. B McCrary soon will step, do\yn S: action chairman of the State High way and Public Works Commis sion and a fulltime successor wil be appointed, a high official sait here today. The spokesman, who asked tha he be unidentified, said that Me Crary had been asked to assumi the fulltime chairmanship but de dined because of the press of hi; textile business in Asheboro. Me Crary, a member of the commis sion, has been acting chairmai since Ben Prince entered the Ar my about a year ago. McCrarj took the acting chairmanship oi condition that he be allowed t( spend part of his time in tha capacity. He has been in Ra leigh about two days each week on the average, and has presidec over the commission meetings. It was understood that McCrarj still would remain a commissioi member. Governor Broughton said tha' he had no comment to make either on the report of the chang* or on McCrary’s successor as act ing chairman. For the latter pos' the names of Chief Counse, Charles Ross and Chief Engineej Vance Baise have been mention ed. Rumors of a rift in the person nel of the department have beer as the propelling factors in th< commission itself is known t< have held at least one executivi session to discuss the matter anc to consider the appointment o; a personnel director. No definiti action was announced. That, plus the fact that Gov ernor Broughton already had di rected the Highway Departmen to draw up plans for highway ex pansion and repairs were givei as the propeelling factors In th< forthcoming change. Governor Broughton announce* some weeks ago that equipmen and materials might becomi available before the end of th< war and said the departmen should be in position to take ad vantage of those possibilities About $40,000,000 in State and Fed eral funds will be available fo that work. ‘_ SIDE GLANCES I 1 71 t rf-nr i«r -■ • _ .. . 1 tdPtL 1»43frV UU 9&MCI, me. T. M, ft£C. U. 8. PAT, OFF._— ~-* “Please, dear, remember your promise about not putting — your feet on the furniture!” COAL MEN URGED ! TO REACH TERMS Ickes Tells Operators To Make Peace With Mine Unions WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.— — Interior Secretary Ickes told coal operators today to get busy and come to terms with the United Mine workers if they want their mines back. He said the government, which now is running the mines under a Federal wage agreement con eluded between Ickes and mine union boss John L. Lewis, would immediately restore the properties to their owners if a contract were signed and another work-stoppage •‘were thus rendered improbable.” “I doubt, however, that I would be permitted by this coal-hungry nation to terminate government possession when many citizens fee] that this would again result in the probability that, once the mines got back into the hands of their owners, widespread stoppages would occur again,” Ickes told 29 producers gathered here. He pointed out that the War La bor Disputes Act provides for res toration of the mines when “pro ductive efficiency” has been re stored. The secretary branded as “si11'"” rumors he favors nationalization of the coal industry, and announc ed he had already started the pro cess of returning to the owners those mines at which no stoppages had occurred during the last work suspension. Ee said he expects to issue the first orders releasing such mines *his week. “I am back in the job that I never wanted,” . Ickes asserted, “and that you probably didn’t want me to have. I have never wanted lo be a mine operator. I have never even wanted to own a coal mine. The sooner the operators and the mine workers negotiate a contract and the sooner the mines are returned to the oper ators, the sooner you will make happier men of yourselves and of me.” The secretary said he was happy to declare that production has gen erally been restored to normal. The government seized the coal mines for a second time early this month when a new general work stoppage developed from miner dissatisfaction over continued lack of a working contract, on which operators, miners and the War La bor Board were unable to get to gether. -V WANTS JOB BOSTON, Nov. 15—(JV—It’s nice work if you can get it. An ad in a Boston newspaper read: “Man wants job, 39 years, 3-A. No hard work, and chance for advancement.” -V Ohio University was the first educational institution opened in the Northwest Territory, in 1309. Relieves it Quickly !f’' BC! lr ?Han? ?enerally “all-in”, offers extro^f3 helping-hand. ”BC” 'riKrecl'pnKa'fast rehfcf because its Also r-iiews neo,rea,di’jy assimilated, lar pr'Ki ,1® neuralgi3, and muscu Bs 'li -«4,i0c nnd 25= sizes- Use only a Physician t Support COMMUNITY WAR CHEST With Your Funds j “Give That Others ’ May Live” _ In PEACETIME, the more Long Distance calls you make, the better we like it. But today our ambition is to get all essential calls through fast. Yet the war has choked the wires with messages so that often we have busy circuits. When that happens, it will help if you will cancel your call altogether, if it isn’t really important. If you can’t do that, the operator will say, “Please limit your call to 5 minutes. Others are waiting.” W. B. BRYAN, MANAGER 1_' —
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