The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-16
Under Cover
BY JOHN ROY CARLSON
nd the Spear-head of Anti
".ncratic Crusade With Powerful
pe s,,ence Throughout the Country
ii'i'N CHAPTER 9

ou ar.tic Crusade With Powerful
DEEM s,,,ance Throughout the Country
ihl'DN CHAPTER 9
ne influence WELDED by n e
nld in our political dissensions
Dv' a+ not be underestimate. The
1 1lmd was the spear-head of the
'I ~ Tnorocrstic crusade and set
an @iiD aottern for the Christian Front
lne t5e Silver Shirts and count
an %nr others like them Viewed over
I 49, Years. the swastika -heiling pc
Iie was temporary expediency
l4 4oaod TO arrest public opinion and
ss a+i,rau the admiration of frus-
. e and supplemented Ameri-
rans in the lower classes of our
society. .., ~
,oanched two-pronged pincer at
,a on our Democracy. Leader
'at ;n of the first fifth column"
snp p entrusted 10 Commandment
M ans whlie the second was en-
.rnSted to carefully selected can
1:Jotes of non-German lone hun
g 5rod npr cent American" ancestry
u Tho N F,dnondsons and Pelleys-
.,,s ,l, lob it was literally to trans
, r+ Na.i propaganda into English
t .ornos and serve it as patriot
; ;s[ ~ to those who would swallow
~" &c such. The American wing
If the NaA psychological f # h
VI oa,,n,n penetrated Park Avenue
soniotv or business and industrial
s;rc1es and eventually projected
;.roIf deep into the halls of Con-
gress.
horde Of Nazi agents travelled
,ack and forth. Consul Herbert
ccbolz directed operations fir m
poston; Gerhard Alois Westrick
,,orI,ed the New York area; from
I;s home overlooking the San Di-
a9o naval base, Count Won Bulow
msnaged the vital Western coast
n-+b willy Fritz W;ede1nann, San
Trancisco consul, who was finally
.vnplled, Hans BCrchers. Freder-
". Draeger. Nazi clergymen like
4s Rev. S C. vor Bose fur
4sej Nazism from the pulpit. At
rd,mbia university Professor
friedrich E Auhagen and at Wit
.snssrg college in Ohio. Frederick
K xueeer propageted the Nazi
csse in N extensive Nazi net
m-s that permeated every cor
,,r of America and made its in
fence felt in every class of our
s,o'ql. economic and political life.
II was the boom period for es-
pionage in which the boats of the
hamburg American Line played a
r-o,77iran1 role. Dr. Colin Ross,
Nazi of Scot ancestry, toured
tmerica photographing our indus
tries. harbors, power plants, and
r2rving Hitlerites IL our key cit
les. Germans in America. too,
have experienced theil Versailles,
he wrote "A man will arise and
rally them, a German - Thomas
Paine
In the meanwhile, the Bund had
50 antagonized most Americans by
its swastlEa-heiline phase that or
do-s came from Berlin to cut out
W1lic singing of the Horst Wes-
sci Lied. shelve the Sam Browne
belts and marching boots and go
Arerican." The party line chang
e.. as bucket OF red-white-and-
blue paint was applied to make
overnight patriots of the Nazi.
The Deutscher Weclruf became
TIE Free America, And no long
e" protesting to convert the Unit
ed States to National Socialism,
the Rund became nationalist and
iS")ationist, showed great concern
for the welfare OF the Republic
and adopted the slogan: America
First
When Fritz Kuhn was jailed for
miSusing party funds. Kunze took
his place and promptly identified
himself with the great Carl Schurz
IN leaflets titled Blood Is Honor
and Germany. Americas Great
Friend IN Need The spirit of
George Washington must n eve r
die the Bund screamed. ITO none
is his memory dearer h n to
Americans of German origin"
DISCUSSING itself as the Manner
chor Male Chorus the Los An
geles Bund attended meeting of
the League 10 Save America First,
managed by T. W Hughes. After
me meeting had started the storm
Nouoadours unfolded packages re-
Seinollng sheet music and distrib-
H(eo mem to the audience. It was
Nazl literature.
Inc band-that is the Nazi arm
" the same old Bund-went I'm
ueIsrouhd to plot sabotage and
espionage, while its "American'
wing guShed out in patriotism ano
S sn with native fascists. Bias
IN n'nS antl-Catholic. the Bund wen1
r uoI heavily for christianity" spon.
p roieu giant Christian American
",eetasS' and frothed at the per
r; sIu, w OF Christians by hand
~ a American Jews Most laugh