ENEMY INTRIGUE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1940, Page 5

ENEMY INTRIGUE

RIFE IN UNITED STATES ACCORDING TO MR DIES. MUCH EVIDENCE OBTAINED BY COMMITTEE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 9.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 26. Mr M. Dies, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee investigating un-American activities, claims to have positive evidence that Italy, Germany and Russia are flooding the United States with propaganda, designed to disrupt national defence and prevent American aid to Britain. He declared that his committee had seized records in Texas, on the west coast and in Kansas City, proving that Nazis and Fascists are working through German and Italian descended Americans, disseminating propaganda designed to divide the United States religiously and racially and to aid efforts to establish spies and saboteurs in key defence industries. The committee’s file contained the names and histories of 100,000 persons prominent in Nazi or Fascist activities. Since the World War Germany has mailed hundreds of thousands of pieces of literature throughout the United States, under a free mailing agreement. The committee obtained the names of 1250 German sympathisers on the west coast, the majority of whom are employed in aircraft and other key defence industries.