Montana labor news., 1937-06-03
JERRY 0'(0NNELL
Joins IN DEMAND
FOR INVESTIGATION
Spanish Fascist Spy Ring I'm
covered in United States.
Former American Diplomat and
Catholic Truth Society Found
er Connected With Undemo-
cratic Propaganda Here, Docu-
ments Published by Daily
Worker Show.

in the United States through two
former Spanish diplomats, a former
ambassador from the United States
to Spain, the founder and leader of
the International Catholic Truth So
ciety of Brooklyn, and other lesser
lights, according to documents and
other information published in a SEN
sational series of articles published
in the Daily Worker of New York.
On the basis of the information
produced by this paper, Senator
Gerald P. Nye, in the Senate, and
Rep. John T. Bernard and Rep. Jer-
ry O'Connell, in the House, have de-
manded a Congressional investiga-
ton into Spanish Fascist activities
in this country. Rep. Bernard and
Rep. O'Connell were joined by q
colleagues for a sweeping inquiry
into the operations of spies working
against a legitimate government
with which the United States main
tains friendly relations.
Information uncovered thus far in
cludes the following facts:
l. Chief actors of the espionage
ring: Juan Francisco de Cardenas,
Spanish ambassador to the United
States from 1931-1934; Jose de Greg
orio, former secretary of the Spanish
Embassy in Washington.
2. Both de Cardenas and de Greg
orio enjoy diplomatic privileges and
are in the country on diplomatic
passports which they possess illegal
ly.
3. These gentlemen have secured
the purchase of arms by Fascist
countries - Argentina, Italy, Ger
many, Portugal and Guatemala-for
transshipment to General Franco in
Spain, thus violating the neutrality
law of the United States.
4. Manuel Diaz and Marcelino
Garcia, owners of the Garcia and
Diaz recommended to the ring on
March S, 1887, that a speedy armed
ship be sent to the Strait of Yucca
tan to block shipping from Mexico
to the Spanish Republic, thus threat
ening an interference with shipping
in American waters.
5. The United States has been
made the center of a vast espionage
network leading from here to for
eign countries, Cuba, Mexico, France
and Spain.
6. American shipping is being
spied upon, and reports are being
sent to rebels operating within a
nation with which the United States
maintains friendly relations.
7. Ogden H. Hammond, former
ambassador of the United States to
Spain, is named in correspondence
of the spy ring as a fellow worker.
His activities consist, in part, of his
leadership of the so-called "Ameri-
can Committee for Spanish Relief
which has openly announced that il
favors the rebel cause. His asso-
ciates in the Fascist organization are:
Basil Harris, vice-president, Inter
national Mercantile Marine; Leon
Frazier, director of General Electric;
Joseph P. Grace, merchant and ship
per; Kelly Graham, president Jersey
City First National Bank; Thomas
Woodlock, admirer of Hitler and
Mussolini and a financial writer; and
Maj.-Gen. William N. Haskell, COM
mander of New York National
Guard. This group is planning a
meeting to whip up enthusiasm for
rebel Spain in the near future.
8. The Rev. Edward Lodge Cur
ran, founder and leader of the In
ternational Catholic Truth Society
of Brooklyn, who has distinguished
himself and his puppet organization,
the American Committee Against
Communism, for hatred of the Re-
public of Spain, is alleged by pub
lished news stories to have circu-
lated faxed horror photos, some of
them pornographic as defined by
United States postal laws, through
the United States mails. Joaquin
Sunye, a member of the spy ring
and head of the "Official Spanish
Chamber of Commerce." which has
been repudiated as a rebel agency
by the Spanish Government, readily
identified these photographs as
Father Curran's to a reporter.
DR.. Harry F. Ward, national chair
man Of the American League
Against War and Fascism, in a state
ment released to the press, urged
that an immediate investigation of
undemocratic Spanish Fascist spy
operations be made by a Congress
sional committee; that Fascist propa-
ganda agencies "be put out of bust
ness here" and that the diplomatic
passports which are held illegally by
former diplomats be revoked.
Others who joined DR.. Ward in
demanding an investigation of I'M
American Fascist activities in the
United States include DR.. Harry Ell
mer Barnes, Dean Morton Gottschall
of c. c. N. Y, DR.. Clyde Miller of
Columbia, DR.. Bella V. Dodd of
Hunter College, Leland Stowe of the
Herald Tribune, DR.. Henry E. ST.