Evening star., 1940-01-03

to work the will of foreign dictators
in the United States or to destroy
our constitutional democracy and
set up totalitarian regime of some
sort in its place. The committees
objectives have been advanced to a
remarkable degree in a brief IL
months. The Soviet-Nazi pact has
helped by making more clear the
real nature of all distatorships and
by revealing the similarity between
Hitler's Nazi-ism and Stains Com
munism. The attacks on Poland
and Finland have caused revulsion
of feeling in America against the
nations which were responsible.
The work of the committee has
unquestionably been an important
factor in bringing about the follow
ing results:
l. Fritz Kuhn. styled "fuehrer" of
the German-American Bund. has
been sent to prison as man unable
to be trusted with the custody of
the funds of his own organization:
2. Earl Browder, general secre-
tary of the Communist party, and
William Weiner. party treasurer
have been indicted on the charge
OF falsifying American passports.
and the Department of Justice is
understood to be preparing further
cases of similar sort against other
leaders OF that organizations;
3. Nicholas Dozenberg has been
charged with counterfeiting of
American money on orders from
the Communist International;
4. William Dudley Pelley, self
styled leader of men," disappeared
from view completely a couple of
months ago rather than appear like
a man" before the committee or
appear in court in his own county
in North Carolina to answer to a
citation from the Superior Court to
show cause why his parole should
not be revoked for violation of his
probation. Pelley is a fugitive from
justice, and this fact is very ap-
parently having a serious effect on
his Silver Shirt organization;
S. officials of Bookniga, Soviet
propaganda agency, have pleaded
guilty to the charge of failure to
register with the State Department
as foreign agents, and similar cases
are in preparation by the Justice
Department;
6. Arno Rissi and Mrs. Leslie Fry,
West Coast Nazi and Fascist leaders.
have fled the country for good and
sufficient reason; and
7. Many bills of corrective nature
have been introduced and passed by
the House as a result of the testi-
mony produced by this committee.
Bund and Similar Organizations
Experience Darkest Days.
Speaking more generally, the
German American Bund, the Com
munist party, the Silver Shirts and
some other similar organizations
have fallen upon the darkest days
they have seen yet They are losing
both membership and prestige and
the time may speedily come when
they will cease to be seriously re-
garded by any one in the United
States. If this result is to be
achieved, however, the earnest effort
Of all groups of people in the United
States will be required, as well as
vigorous action to enforce the laws
we now have on our statute books.
We believe that the committee
would render a disservice to the
Nation If it left the impression In
its report that there Is anything
in the present situation to cause
any one to lose faith in the American
people as a whole or their devotion
to their basic institutions. Indeed,
one of the greatest facts of all that
should be recorded in the report
Of this committee is that on the
basis Of evidence presented to the
committee, not over 1000, 900 people
In the United States can be said to
have been seriously affected by these
essentially foreign or un-American
activities. That leaves about 13l,-
000, 900 Americans who in spite Of
the efforts Of Nazis, Fascists, Com