Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-09
Sedition Case Exhibit,
Show Policy Unit KEPT
In Touch With Reich
.kozi OffieioI Applied
For Piece on Mailing
List, Letter Reveals
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

Letters showing cordial. relation
ship between the publishing organ
ization of william Dudley Policy, a
defendant in the sedition case. and
the America -Institut of Berlin at
the time war broke out in Europe
and afterward was brought out by
the Government today at the trial
In District Court.
In one letter among the Govern
ment exhibits admitted in evidence,
dated May 81, 1889. A. H. E. Talpey
of the Pelley Publishers, wrote Fred
erick Kleinschmidt, Hamburg, Ger
many:
situation, we feel that you can do
no better than follow Liberation "a
Pelley magazine) closely. 1t will
present vital facts not ordinarily
published in the controlled press
especially as it relates to the Jewish
question:"
Talpey added: IT think that Mr.
Policy would probably appreciate
anything that you might care to
write about local conditions, espe-
cially as we feel that much of the
news about Germany appearing in
our daily newspapers is very highly
colored with propaganda and that
the general attitude of the German
people toward America is friendly
and peaceful"
German Sought Paper.
Another letter showed an applica-
ton from DR.. K. o. Bertling of the
Amerika Institute, to be placed on
the Policy mailing list.
Other letters which Chief Prose-
cutor o. John Royce read to the
jury showed a number of other
defendants interested in the pub
locations put out by Pelley, former
leader of the Silver Shirts. These
included Hans Diebel, proprietor of
the Aryan Bookstore, German
American Bund outlet in Los
Angeles Ellis O. Jones of the Ma
tional' Copperheads and the Friends
OF Progress, Los Angeles; Col. E. N.
Sanctuary, New York; Garland l..
Alderman, secretary of the National
Workers League, Detroit; George
E. Detherage, commander of the
Knights of the White Camellia, and
w. R. Lyman, jr., of the National
Workers League.
Another item in the communica-
lions was letter from the defendant
Edward James Smythe, as chairman
OF the Protestant War Veterans, to
the editor of the Roll Call, Policy
magazine, inquiring:
Would it be too much to ask you
to insert an item in your paper
stating that petitions to impeach
Roosevelt can be had by writing to
this organization?"
Broenstrupp Protested Ruling.
: Another defendant, Howard v.
BroenStrupp, formerly attorney for
Pelley, wrote the solicitor of the
Postofflce Department. May 9, 1912,
protesting against ruling that the
sPelley publication, the Galilean, and
IA booklet Britain in Pawn" were
Non rnailable. Broenstrupp wrote:
10 In view of the fact that many
iUf its constructive criticisms on how
TO conduct the war might place the
enemies on guard as to possible
ways by which America might win
the war, it is more advisable to
teach the lunkheads in Washing
ton how to win it than fear any
possible stronger opposition from our
enemies. -
ITO me it appears that your an
tagonism to our magazine and its
policy is because of its anti-Jew
attitude and antiadministrati ton crit
icisms. Why don't you devote your
time to investigating a few of the
Communist papers run by Mon
solian revolutionary Jews, or clear
up the Monaghan Jews now in your
Post Office Department?