Evening star., 1944-07-28
Letter iinPe||ey's
Files Describes
Drag With Axis
Eicher Considers
AdmissibiIity
Of Documents
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

~ EN- DhOOAE JONES.
Personal files of William Dudley
Pelley, defendant in the sedition
case, offered in evidence by the
in District Court and
being studied today by Chief Justice
Edward c. Eicher to determine their
admissibility, include an unsigned
copy OF letter, dated four months
before Pearl Harbor, which stated:
I think the time has come to
consider that everything I have
lone up to now has been prepara-
sory to the real gesture of starting
something that literally sweeps the
United States and drives the
Luciferians into the two oceans. Not
only that, but I hope that it results
N renovated and purified America.
both spiritually and economically,
IN time, l am not so sure that it
Isnt going to go beyond the confines
oI America, because already I find
myself a mightier parsonage in both
Japan and Germany than my own
breed here in the United States ia
yet willing to accredit.
MY drag in Japan is SO great
mat II 1t were not for the war
structure / could launch a branch
d the Galileans there overnight.
nave letters from prominent Japa-
nese soliciting that I do some such
'ning and offering to give me every
practical assistance in it.
Book Widely Read.
AS for Germany and Europe
did I tell you that Just before the
war broke, every member of the
Nazl court, including Herr Hitler
himself, had read my book Behold
LIE and was CHASING it as exactly
The type of religion which Nazi
Germany could embrace?"
The letter added: IF we got thi,
iaillean movement going in Japan
ana Germany, it seems to me that
the United States would be caught
IN a gigantic pincers movement
Of religious nature that it would
not escape"
Peiley, leader of the Silver Shirts.
got out number of publications. in.
cludlng the Galilean. Douglas ].
Wllliams, FBI agent, identified the
correspondence and other books and
documents shortly before the mass
trial adjourned for the week end
last night. He said he seized them
unoer a search warrant at Pelley's
nome In Indianapolis April 4, 1912.
Letter Is Quoted.
The correspondence included a
copy OF a letter from v. Chereo-Spi-
rldovich, described by the Govern.
ment as an alias used by the de-
lendant, Howard v. Broenstrupp. to
William Schier Bryant in New York.
In which he wrote:
We are laying the groundwork
lor a campaign in the Roll Call "a
Pelley publication) urging the i'm
parchment of Roosevelt, but 1 would
IKE TO make a second attack or
campaign urging the medical officer
10 declare him unfit to be COM
mander in chief of our land and
naval forces.
III you can find time to do so. I
wish you would write up an article
setting forth the various SYMPTOMS
OF insanity and the reason whv the
chlef medical officer should act
WIN have this article printed in the
Roll Call, simply as an unsigned
artlcle, unless you desire your name
We can have reprints
struck of and Congress flooded with
them through the Silver Shirt or.
Broenstrupp at one time was Pei
ley's attorney.
Interest also centered in an alleged
letter from Pelley to Mai. Gen
George Van Horn Moseley. retired
army officer. dated April 20, ls4l.
Would Alter History.
Pelley wrote of plans to "alter tn.
course OF American history in the
next two TO four years" He spoke
OF enilsting Gen. Moseley. Senator
wheeler, Democrat, of Montana.
Henry Ford and Charles A. Lind,
bergh in the plans.
The defendant said il would r.
necessary for him to confer with
Gen. Moseley, then at Fort Mcpher.
SON ga, at an early date on some.
tning very definite that is matur.
ing as Britain stumbles and stag.
gers toward her downfall
1 am carrying around in NV
neao' my dear general, information
OF SO colossal character that feel
mat 1t should be shared by at least
three other men beside myself-
namely, Henry Ford, Col. Lindbereh
senator Wheeler and yourself; and
YET IT Is OF such character that
can oe conveyed only by word of
Pelley said he was leaving in tn.
to confer with Mr.. Ford
adding that the Detroit maenate
is definitely interested in the pre-
llmlnary material which 1 have SUBJ
mltted to him and has implied that
ne would put a million dollars be-
nlnd our gesture, providing it could
oe SHOWN that we can deliver the
goods" 'e
Aid of Four Men Needed,
The letter added: "If I can onlv
eet 1our men Of outstanding pres
tlge with the American people tn
utilize the data I am in a position
to supply, with Mr.. Fords wealth to
finance remedial action, Mr.. Lind
oerghs glamour to assure the in
terest OF the public, Senator Wheel.
er's prestige with Capitol Hill to do
the necessary governmental tasks.
and your interest to convince the
Army personnel of the integrity of
our intentions, we can follow en-
tirely legal means for the elimina-
ton OF this subversive element that
is capturing our Government. More
than this I cannot say in a let
ter. ="
A Washington spokesman for MIR.
Ford said outside the courtroom:
The statement concerning Henry
Ford in connection with Mr.. Pelley
and Gen. Moseley is a malicious lie.
Mr.. Ford has never seen Pelley or
Moseley, and the former was thrown
out OF his Office building at Dear
born when he attempted to obtain
funds"