Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-05
Don't LET America
BE Stabbed in Back,
Knox TeIIsF. B. |.
Hitting New Axis Poet,
Secretary Says U. S.
Won't Be Intimidoted

Citing the fall of European ma
tons because of internal enemies,
Secretary of the Navy Knox declared
in a speech today that 1.-The danger
of that sort of activity undermining
our military power is tremendous.
Addressing police officers from
many parts of the country who were
participating in graduation exercises
of the National Police Academy at
the Department of Justice. the Sec
rotary of the Navy visualized the
possibility Of this Nation being
forced to meet challenge" that
will engage the Army and Navy and
added:
Its your task, and it's equally
important then to see that no one
is stabbed in the back while We are
thus engaged"
The Navy Secretary warned his
hearers that subversive activities
must be countered by cool and COL
lected" methods. The officers have
been studying defense methods to
combat espionage and sabotage.
Hits New Axis Pact.
Discussing 1.-The conSummation re-
Gently of a pact between three to-
talitarian powers" Secretary Knox
said that the trio did not hest
tate to say openly that the pact
gave subsequence to a long stand
ing conspiracy against the United
States"
He concluded vigorously:
America has never tamely sub
mitted to intimidation.
Denial to aliens of the right of
free speech and free press was ad
vocated by Fulton Oursler, editor
of Liberty Magazine, in an address
preceding Secretary Knox after the
graduates had received a message
from Attorney General Jackson
warning overzealous law enforce
ment.
To the 80 graduates completing
the three months course in ad-
vanced law enforcement methods
and the nearly 300 former grad
yates who are completing a weeks
restraining work, Mr.. Oursler de-
clared:
st would deny the right of free
press and free speech to any per-
son who was not an American cit
izen, since many aliens do not realize
that it is proper to withhold dis
respectful utterances while they are
guests in our country"
The publisher was joined in a
denunciation of subversive activ-
tiles in this country by J. Edgar
Hoover. head of the F. B. l., which
conducts the police school.
Oursler Gives Spy Warning.
Mr.. Oursler declared that mo
fifth column is ever going to pre-
vail against us" but he added that
agents of Gestapo and Ogpu are
at work throughout the country.
"They carefully pick their key
victims" he said. THE wife of a
publisher who could not pay for a
fur coat is ripe for donation. The
radio commentator who cannot pay
his gambling debts, improvident
walters in fashionable hotels, refu-
gees who seek sanctuary here with
out their passports-all are ripe for
foreign agents.
And again we have our native
fifth columns
Matthew F. Mcclure, assistant to
the Attorney General, praised the
work of Mr.. Hoover's Office and in
particular that of the special police
school. Stressing the purposes of
the school in the light of current
events, he declared:
"You leave here at time highly
significant in the history of the
country and of the world, and 1t is
highly important that your sessions
should have been devoted and con-
fined to newer, better and more
effective methods of perfecting and
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