Evening star., 1940-01-03

California leader of the Silver
Shirts; J. H. Peyton of the Ameri-
can Rangers; Charles B. Hudson of
Omaha. Nebr, organizer and leader
of America Awake, who accom-
panied Gen. Moseley when he ap-
peared before the committee, Mrs.
Leslie Fry, alias Paquita Louise De
Shishmareff, mysterious interna-
tional figure who has since fled the
country, then leader of the Militant
Christian Patriots; representatives
of Italian Fascist and White Rus
sian organizations, and number of
others of similar point of view.
Bund literature mingled with that
of William Dudley Pelley. Robert
Edmondson, Mrs. Fry and George
Deatherage on the tables of this
convention.
Allen further testified that he was
sent out by Mrs. Fry on an extended
trip throughout the country, and
that all his expenses were paid by
Mrs. Fry, but Allen did not know
her source of the money. During
the course of this trip Allen visited
George Deatherage, leader of the
Knights Of the White Camelia;
James True of Washington, D. c.,
publisher of the so-called Industrial
Control Reports; Gerald B. Winrod,
Kansas preacher, Nazi protagonist
and unsuccessful candidate for the
Senate; Robert Edmondson, dissent
nator of Fascist literature, and Fritz
Kuhn. On this same trip Allen
went to Atlanta. Ga, to attempt to
buy the Ku Klux Klan" for Mrs.
Fry for the sum of SIS 900. He testi-
fed that he talked to Hiram w
Evans, head of the Klan, but that
Evans was not interested in the
idea"
In releasing this report on the
activities of Nazi agents in the
United States, the committee wishes
to make the emphatic statement
that neither the committee as a
whole nor any of its individual men,
bers entertains the slightest doubt
of the answering loyalty to the
United States of our fellow citizens
of German descent. In number of
cases it was their cooperation which
made disclosures of bund activities
possible. They felt that it was as
much in their interest as in that
of the Nation as a whole that the
committee endeavored to bring to
light some of the facts concerning
the operations of Nazi agents and
the leaders of the German American
Bund.
The question of the form of gov
ernment of the German or any
other nation is not one that concerns
either this committee or the Ameri-
can people. But attempts by any
foreign agency to influence Ameri-
can citizens in favor of foreign
form of government and against
American democracy is quite diff
ferent matter and one concerning
which the Committee on Un-Ameri-
can Activities has immediate and
great concern.
Fascist groups-In recent years a
large number of organizations and
individuals sympathetic to Nazi and
Fascist ideals and forms of govern
ment have been extremely active in
the United States. There is no way
to determine accurately exactly how
many such organizations are pres
emily active or have been existent in
recent years. They are conceived in
the minds of would-be "fuehrers"
and spring up overnight with alarm
ing frequency.
Some Of the organizations which
have been brought to the commit
tees attention frankly describe
themselves as Fascist" One pub
lication introduced into evidence
states: This issue carries at the
masthead our newly selected en-
blem-the swastika."
Advocate Accomplishment 81
BY Force and Violence.
They advocate as q part Of their
program the accomplishment Of
change In our present form Of gov
ernment by forcs and violence.