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spy. At the Intervention of the
State Department the sentence was
revoked and she came to the United
States with her second husband, the
Count de Cienfuegos whom she had
married some years before in Spain.
On her arrival here she became a
militant supporter of Gen. Franco
and the Spanish Fascist. Late in
1889 she returned to Spain and in
1941 went to Germany and began
her propaganda broadcasts for the
German government.
AS a propagandist for Hitler she
was introduced as famous Cath
olic orator" and her remarks are al
most entirely devoted to denunci-
ationS of Communism and charges
of the Communist domination" of
the Roosevelt and Churchill govern
ments. She suddenly stopped
broadcasting in April, 1912.
Counterpart of Haw Haw.
Kaltenbach, born in Dubuque of
German immigrant parents, who
served in the World War as a Sec
ond lieutenant of Field Artillery,
was described as the Nazi's Amer
lean counterpart of Lord Haw Haw,
the expatriate British Fascist who
also broadcaSts from Germany.
Kaltenbach went to Germany in
June, 1888, ostensibly to study for
his Phi. D. at the University of
Berlin. Instead he worked as trans
lator and free lance writer and
later for the governments t-controlled
radio system, Kaltenbach's strong
Nazi sympathies were we'll known
to many of the American colony
in Berlin. He began his propa-
ganda broadcasts to the United
States early in 1941, usually ad-
dressing his remarks to Dear
Harry" and other mythical Iowa
friends.
Born in Darnstadt. Germany,
Constance Drexel came to this
country in 1895 with her father and
obtained derivative citizenship when
he was naturalized in Boston in
1898. As young women she en-
tered newspaper work with the
Boston Globe and later worked for
various other papers, including the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, the
Chicago Tribune and the Mcclure
Syndicate.
She made half a dozen trips to
Europe and attended the Geneva
arms conference in 1882. Even at
this early date she was known
among her colleagues abroad as a
staunch supporter of Hitler. In 1898,
she was employed in Philadelphia
on the WPA writers project and left
suddenly for Berlin in 1899, ex-
planning that her passage was being
paid for by the German government.
She began her broadcast over the
German short wave in 1910. She has
confined her broadcasting for the
Nazis largely to cultural items.
Chandler Educated in Baltimore.
Douglas Chandler, native of Chi
cago, grew up and received his
education in Baltimore He served
for short time in the Navy in
years as reporter and columnist for
the Baltimore Sunday American,
and then went into the advertising
business in New York. In 1880, he
went to France and has not re-
turned since.
Chandler drifted about Central
Europe and the Balkans for several
years and spent much time in
Vienna and Berlin. The Nazis
placed at his disposal an elaborate
home in Berlin suburb conf1scated
from a political prisoner.
BY 1888, the Justice Department
said, his conversion to Nazism was
complete, and he made a lecture tour
through England and Scotland on
behalf of the German government.
praising the virtues of National
Socialism, With the approach of
the war in 1941, he ignored the
urgent request of the State Depart
ment to return to the United States,
and in the summer of that year he
began his propaganda broadcasts
to this country.
Delaney was born in Olney. Ill.
went on the stage in 1910 with a
company then playing Get Rich
Quick Wallingford." For the next
zo years he remained on the stage.
For few years he was chief of
general publicity for Loew's, Inc,
movie and theatrical corporation, in
the firms New York Offices.
Delaney Used Name of Ward.
In December, 1899, Delaney went to
Europe and has remained there
ever since. He went on the air as
a short wave broadcaster to this
country under the name of E. D.
Ward and at the same time mailed
considerable quantities of Nazi
propaganda to friends and relatives
In this country.
Delaney was described as one of
the lesser luminaries on the Nazi
network He traded almost entirely
on the fact of his American citizen
ship and his command of the Broad
way vernacular, which are supposed
to give his broadcast an intimate
''just one of the boys from home"
flavor. For time he acted as
master Of ceremonies of IAN alleged
ly humorous program" the purpose
of which was to satirize events in
the United States. He was taken off
: the air in June, 1912
= Koischwitz was born in Germany,
!. the son of prominent surgeon and
received a Phi. D. degree from the
University of Berlin in 1925. He
< came to the United States the same
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