Evening star., 1944-08-08
Pe||ey's Editor
Saw Devils
lin Roosevelt
Wrote Deotheroee
President Seemed
Unbalanced in Talk
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

Dy SARA EN- DNOOhE1 JONLSs
President Roosevelt seems like
one possessed Of devils" an asso-
ciate OF one defendant in the sedi-
ton case wrote another Of the 26
alleged conspirators, according to a
Government exhibit which Chief
Prosecutor o. John Rogge read to-
day to the District Court Jury.
1t was one of the letters exchanged
between Larry and George" whom
the prosecutor described as Law
renee Brown. editor for the former
Silver Shirt leader, William Dudley
Pelley, and George E. Deartherage.
ex-commander of the Knights of the
White Camellia. Pelley and Death
erage are defendants. In this letter
dated October %, 1941, Larry"
spoke of IF. D. RS crazy address
OF last evening"" adding:
I never heard him talk like that
but once before, and this was even
more belligerent, to the point Of
exhibiting man well unbalanced,
as charged by Berlin spokesman
'' His pictures show a man beside
hlmself. Maybe you have heard
something not published about what
got into this man, for he seems like
one possessed of devils"
MAY See Our Dunkerque."
The writer added: Eyes, we may
see our Dunkerque. I was thinking
today our Maginot Line is physically
perhaps the Navy. for back of that
we have just nothing, and won't
have for at least five years, and our
financial setup will bust long before
then, besides our economy will be
entirely disrupted within a years
time"
AS Mr.. Rogge delved deeper today
into approximately 200 documents
Chief Justice Edward c. Eicher ad-
mitted in evidence late yesterday,
defense counsel continued to bonn
bard the court with objections and
motions to strike certain exhibits
from the record. AL the motions
were denied.
In the course of the arguments
I the prosecutor said it was "a ques-
ton whether the continual defense
objections are in good faith" since
the issues were threshed out before
the court admitted the documents
in evidence.
Objection Is Denied.
Several defense attorneys leaped
up with demands that Mr.. Rogges
comment be eliminated from the
record, but Justice Eicher refused,
saying that in the continual utter
ance of objections previously over
ruled there was at least doubt Of
the good faith of counsel. The at
torneys took emphatic exception to
the courts remarks.
! A month after Pearl Harbor Pei
ley's magazine, the Galilean, COM
mented, the record at the trial dis
closed today:
Comes now the staggering mes
sage to Congress, from the man who
has just been responsible for the
loss Of the Philippines, that the
United States is going to send an
AEF to all fronts and that some
thing like Sc billion dollars must be
appropriated to finance them. The
first reaction of the sedate and SEN
sible citizen to the January 6 presi-
dental address is one of exaspera-
tion and despair.
! However, let us keep our poise.
Conditions are steadily compounding
within the United States which
make any such Garguantuan
project impossible of fulhllment."
| Wanted Talk With Hitler.
Pelley, one of the 26 defendants
charged with conspiring to under
mine the loyalty of the armed
forces, said earlier in a speech,
according to another Government
exhibit just placed in evidence:
Il trust the day arrives soon when
can sit down with Adolf Hitler
personally, on a man to man basis,
with great interests in common,
and forever terminate whatever
differences, debates or rancors
may exist between our respective
countries on a basis of mutual
hberations and mutual aspirations.
Il feel certain that the German
chanceIor and I will understand
one another. The similarity of our
backgrounds and our efforts could
scarcely have it otherwise"