The people's voice., 1943-11-05
October 27, 1s43

l/Cdl 41i- LII wv
You may publish this letter. 1t is
in answer to two items which have
appeared in The Peoples Voice con
cerning Senator Wheeler.
| So far as / am concerned: l do not
recall clearly the 1923 episode but
will swear an oath to this: that Sen
ator Wheeler while in Moscow did
make a statement to newspaper men
praising the Soviet system of govern
ment, and that l did send it out, and
that the corrupt American press did
use it against Wheeler. In Moscow
collaborated with Samuel Spewack
now a well-known playwrite) of the
NY World because that paper and
mine, the Chicago Tribune, we're not
rivals, and each was entitled to the
stories obtained by the other. If
Wheeler insists he did not see me in
Moscow I will not argue the point but
/ will insist that the news came from
my partner and was legitimate.
Even at worst, 1t could only be an
error, whereas Senator Wheeler loses
his dignity and whatever sense of
fairness and decency he ever had by
calling me liar.
When it comes to lying I am afraid
that the Hon. Senior Senator from
Montana is SO old a hand that he sees
the same trait in others. He writes
you that it is not true that he is
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arate peace with Germany" and yet
he has been going up and down the
land saying just that in public lee
lures, and adding on the most abom-
Unable pro-Hitler propaganda in those
private political conferences he holds
in each town.
The case against Wheeler as an
American Nazi is based on certain
evidence and unless he can clear him
self of every charge he must go down
he deny the charge against him made
by Ambassador Dodd? Does he deny
the charge that Carlson, posing as
Nazi, anti-Semite and publisher of
filthy and lying sheet published for
the purpose of fooling the Nazis) was
able to interview him through the in
tervention of Lawrence Dennis, an
avowed pro-Nazi? Does he deny, he
spread the enemy rumor that Japan
had attacked Russia and Russia had
made a separate peace with Germany
as a result? Does he deny that the
dozen publications of the 33 men (and
Mrs. Dilling) shortly to be tried for
sedition reprint his views (along side
with those of Hamilton Fish and
Glare Hoffman,? Does he deny that
since 1910 he has been supported by
Copper?
Did or did not Senator Wheeler
back the notorious crackpot anti-Sem-
ite Thorkelson? Did or did he not
join Senator Johnson Of Colorado in
December 1889 in a plea for continued
tariffs on copper, to benefit Anacon-
da? (The New Republic, December
Is, 1899 exposed Wheeler on this.)
Did or did not Wheeler consult with
Father Coughlin in 1894, as charged
in U S Week, issue of August 16,
1941? Did or did not Wheeler make |
an attack on international bankers"
Jewish names, and sup
pressing the fact that the biggest in
bankers who financed |
Hitler and other fascists
are non-Jews? Can Wheeler deny |
hat the Secretary Of War declared
hat Wheeler's America First work is
close to treason-as reported in PM
July 25, 1911? Did or did not Wheel
sr permit the use of his franking priv
lege by American Nazis? (The
)hotostats of Wheeler envelopes were
published by The Reporter, II E. AZ,
New York;
And even if Senator Wheeler could
lnswer each of the foregoing ques-
ions satisfactorily, he cannot deny
he charge that throughout the sum-
ner in Montana and elsewhere he
made a series of public speeches, all
# which appeared in newspapers
riendly to him, attacking Russia and Il