Evening star., 1944-08-08
Sedition Trial Hears
PeI|ey Hoped 10 Deal
Personally With Hitler
Confident Nozi Leader
Would Be Impressed by
Sympothizers in U. S.
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

Sy"PotutkSIS W ". Ss
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.
A month after Pearl Harbor, VIII
liam Dudley Pelley's magazine, the
Galilean, commented, the record at
the sedition trial in District Court
disclosed 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 sem
sible citizen to the January 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 fulfllment."
Wanted Talk With Hitler.
OllC VI IllC 90
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 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
chancellor and I will understand
one another. The similarity of our
backgrounds and our efforts could
scarcely have 1t otherwise"
The 200 documents which Chief
Justice Edward c. Eicher admitted
in evidence late yesterday also in
clude this Official dispatch" of the
Silver Shirts of America, which Pei
ley organized and commanded:
"On January 81, 1893, the day that
Hitler came into power in Germany,
Pelley came out from under cover
with his Silver Shirt national or
CARNATIONS.
PLANTED Depots of Facts"
Having planted depots of his
facts throughout the entire United
States, enlightened police and Wig
llante groups, secured the co-opera-
tion of outraged Christian citizens
to carry on regardless of what hap
pens to him personally. His organi-
zation of Silver Shirts is now snow
balling exactly as Hitler's Nazis
snow-balled in Germany when the
German people were at last per-
suaded to the truth"
On December 90, 1s4l. % DAYS
after Pearl Harbor, the Galilean
said:
From North Carolina to Seattle,
Wash, you can travel in these mob
iilzing moments and hear scarcely
a word of condemnation for the
Nipponese, the Germans or Ital-
ians."
When Chief Prosecutor o. John
Rogge read to the jury an excerpt
from Pelley's autobiography, The
Door to Revelation describing how
the voice of the oracle" came to
the defendant one night in New
York, telling of the coming power
of young Austrian painter. Law
renee Dennis, a defendant repre-
sentine himself, interrupted:
May I ask whether the oracle
is one OF the conspirators In this
case?"
Ruled Out of Order.
Mr.. Rogge protested the inter.
ruptien, and Justice Eicher told Mr..
Dennis he was "out of order"
In q purported letter to another
defendant, Col. Eugene N. Sanctu-
airy of New York, Pelley wrote Janu-
airy 4, 1912:
Il had a gorgeous 36 hours with
Gen. Moseley Maj. Gen. George
Van Horn Moseley, retired, at At
lanta week before last. and l find
that the general concurs in 90 per
cent of what you and I believe. We
have a valuable ally in this impor-
tant military man and, as l told
him, his military cereer is really
just beginning l believe you have
had no small military career your
self. and I trust the time is coming
when all of us can operate freely
and openly to restore the Republic
which meant so much to us as
boys"
A third defendant. Howard w,
Broenstrupp, formerly Pelley's at
torney. was. according to the Gov
ernment, the Vic" who signed a
letter addressed to My Dear Chief,
identified by the prosecution as Pel-
ley, March IA, 1912:
"Unluckily, four aAsheville bows
were killed in action. two in the At
lantic, when torpedoboat was de-
stroyed and two in Java when the
Houston was sunk. The local people
are all heated up and ready to
wreck their vengeance on any one
who is fair-minded or knows what
it Is all about"
"7-Year Bitter Struggle"
Another document disclosed that
Lawrence Brown, Pelley's research
editor. wrote George E. Deatherage.
defendant, former commander of
the Knights of the White Camelia
and head of the American Nation
alist Confederation:
THE chief has Just written a
monograph which is resume of his
seven-year bitter struggle. 1t is a
striking piece of patriotic litera-
ture, in an effective style of force
full simplicity. The subverters
are referred to as the money cartel,
the invisible government and such
terms, including racial CLIQUE, and
should find acceptance in quarters
where hitherto the bald designation
OF Jews has erected barrier to
distribution"
While the exhibits referred prin-