AGENTS OF JAPANESE
Charge Against Prominent Americans WASHINGTON, September 6. A sensation has been caused by the arrest of three prominent Americans ou charges of acting as Japanese agents. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, disclosed that Walker Grey Matheson, former news analyst in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, which seeks to prevent Axis penetration of South America, Joseph Hilton Smyth, publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine “The Living Age,” and Irvine Harvey Williams have been arrested. Mr. Hoover said Smyth and Matheson bought “The Living Age" in 1938 with 15,000 dollars received from the Japanese Consul on the understanding that, one pro-Japanese article should be published in each issue. They received a monthly subsidy of 2500 dollars from the Japanese Consulate till August, 1941. Smyth was also public relations counsel to the Japanese Consulate till after the Pearl Harbour attack, and conducted au investigation into the activities of Com munists for the Japanese Consul
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 292, 8 September 1942, Page 5
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163AGENTS OF JAPANESE Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 292, 8 September 1942, Page 5
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