The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-08-01

lnu4ailapO4iSs aug A-i.No-N II
liam Dudley Pelley. leader OF the
Silver Shirts. avowed hater of the
Jews and one time candidate for
the presidency OF the United
States, will have his Gay in court
Monday and will seek TO untangle
himself from charges OF sedition,
launched against him and two as
sociates by the federal govern
ment.
And the publisher OF the now
disbarred Galilean, mouthpiece OF
the Silver Shirts Organization. has
brought about the subpoenaeing OF
some well known personages,
among whom are Charles A. Lind,
bergh. Maj. General Van Horne
Mosely. U. S. A. retired: the form
err Senator from West Virginia,
Rush Hold, and the publisher. vii.
liam Allen White, OF Topeka,
Kans.
Mosely's name first entered the
case when evidence was shown
that Policy planned to call the
general TO active service when the
Silver Shirts gained control OF the
country.
Reads Letter
Oscar R. Ewing, a special assist.
ant to Francis Biddle. Attorney
General OF the United States, read
Pelley-written letter to Col. f. n.
Sanctuary, also under indictment
for sedition.
IL had a gorgeous 36 hours with
Gen. Mosely at Atlanta week be-
fore last" the letter, written Jan.
IA. 1912. said.
81 find that the general concurs
in 80 per cent OF what you and |
believe. We have a valuable ally
in this most important military
man.
And, as told him. his military
career is really Just beginning.
81 believe you had no small mil
itary career yourself and trust
the time Is coming when all of us
can operate freely and openly TO
restore the Republic which meant
so much TO us as boys"
The trial adjourned Friday for
the week end with completion of
evidence presented by the prose
cution.
Lindbergh. served with his sub
poena in Detroit. said;
Il do not know what value | can
be either TO the prosecution or
the defense. ! do not believe
have ever met Mr.. Policy and so
far as know have no informa-
ton that could be of value at the
trial"
Lindbergh at one time was a
spokesman for the America First
Committee, now defunct
Another letter written by Policy
was read into the evidence during
the Friday session. addressed to
the late DR.. ]. R. Brinkley, goat
gland" physician of Arkansas, it
read in part:
81 think the time has come to
consider that everything have
done up to now has been prepare
tory to the real gesture of start
ing something that really sweeps
the United States and drives the
luciferous into the two oceans.
Not only that. but | hope 1t re-
suits in a renovated and purified
America. both spiritually and
economically"
In the letter he "foresaw' the
possibility that the Silver Shirt
movement would 90 beyond the
confines of America and pointed
out that he (Pelley) was consider
ed a greater parsonage in Japan
and Germany than my own breed
here in the United States is yet
willing TO accredit.
The letter continued:
Drag" in Japan
my drag in Japan is so great
that IL il were not for war stric-
lures, could launch a branch OF
the Galileans there overnight.
81 have letters from prominent
japanese soliciting that I do some
such thing and offering to give me
every practical assistance in It,"
Pelley's associates. also In trial,
are Miss Marian Henderson and
Lawrence A. Brown. They assist
ed him in publication OF the Bal
ilean, contents of which are the
basis for the charges against the
trio.
The government offered the let.
tiers. together with other evidence,
in an effort to illustrate Pelley's
connection with Axis powers.
Gives "a Themes
Among prosecution witnesses
were Dr. Harold ID. Lasswell, d.
l ector of research for the Library
of Congress and recognized as an
authority on propaganda, and
Harold Graves, Jr.. director of the
Federal Communications Commits
sion's foreign broadcast intelli-
gence division.
Graves outlined the II most i'm
portant themes o. Nazi propagan-
da. which maintain among other
things that the United States is
internally corrupt: the President
Roosevelt Is reprehensible. a war
monger. an INSCRIPTIONS liar and
a pawn for the Jews; that Ger
many is just, truthful and virtuous,
and that the policies OF the japan
csc are morally justifiable.
During the period Dec. s, 1871, to
March 2. 1912, DR.. Lasswell, test
flied. he had found 1875 state
ments printed in the Galilean