The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-07
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indicted, followed up his crush on Naalsm by sendlng mash notes Co German leaders pleading for their help. No got ltl Defendant Joe KAtcNaxl) McWilliAnS pro-Nazl record could flll Q library. His own words show him up best; Hitler is the greatest leader in the his. tory of the world"
 Then there's the case of David ]. Baxter, indicted (later dropped. ]. He was in the pocket of the NaEl Consul in San Francisco-Frita Wledemann. He rlgged up a propa. Randa program for Wledemann and eagerly accepted the Naxis tainted coin. Most enlightening Is this; Baxter worked closely with others ln the sedltion indlctment--E Edward James Smythe. Prank w. Clark and Eugene Sanctuary.
 And there you have several sam- pies Of the creatures wno pose as human beings ana Americans. This colyum merely sketches the outlines of the sedition case. But those we have mentioned are typical of them all. one thing is clear Their careers may differ in details, nevertheless they all have similar aims and methods. They have based their activities on Hitler's rise to power 'Mein Kampf'' is their blue print, and all are an integral part Of the hone-front war against lib- erty.
 And don't get the impression that venom-merchants can be brushed off like crumbs because the Axis was embalmed. Only a few years af- ter the first World war ended native Naz tribe reared its thick skull on the American scene. It was christened The Friends of the Hitler Movement" which was later transformed into the Naz Bund. That was in 1923.
 Today the rabble-rousing fac- tories are going full blast. Trouble is being pedoled in every part of the land. What makes it all deep y shocking is that the Justice De- partment maintains a hat-in-hand attitude toward the hate merchants who are selling poison wholesale.
 Tn the vanguard of the anti American marauders are many of the Sedition defendants. A brace of Federal indictments hasn't put a brake on their dangerous hi-jinkS. Actually, the governments ineffec- tual methods have merely encour- aged them and accelerated their trouble-inciting.
 If the Justice Department buries the Sedition case (aS reported) 1t will be guilty of gross negligence. The alibi that the case isn't strong enough legally is a feeble excuse and the most abject defeatism The least the forces of law and order can do is TRY to convict those who have been indicted. That is their sworn duty. If they are unable or unwilling to carry out mandate from the people - the govt prose- cutors should resign so that Ameri- cans can feel more secure without theml And someone else with more Spunk and brains can take their place. To allow the indicted InspeakableS to brazenly and arro- gantly carry on the activity which resulted in their indictment is Q slap in the face of justice. It en- dangers the foundation Of our land The laws. If the sedition case is kIlled-it can only mean that the Unknown Soldier died for an Un- known Cause.
 The plain fact of the matter, to this reporter, is that failure to prosecute is really the granting of a license to peddle the same old hate doctrine There used to be an old joke in Germany-which would be funny if 1t hadn't cost the lives Of 40 million people The decent people of the com. munity could have stopped Hitler but they couldn't get a police per. mitl"