Interview with Joseph Roos, Los Angeles, July 20, 194J
Mr. Roos is *iitiiaia&xi a memb r of a large Jewish law firm which operates a news research service at 727 W 7th
St* The firm is connected withe the anti-defamation league whose object is to expose anti-semitic propaganda. In 1940 the research service published two of thier weekly news letters on Japan se activities. These were concerned with alleged milit ry preparation of Japan in coll boration with Germany and are most interesting because they were reprinted, word for word, in Martin Dies yellow Book as the product f Dies own investiagtion. Later HXHKXXiHH MarcantAnio photostated the
News Letters in an effort to discredit the Dies Committee.
Mr. Roos knew very little about the evacuation problems but he directed me to other people in the city. Later, also, Mxxthe senior member of the firm (a rominent Legionaire and layyer) Leon Lewis called me. I was unable to see ir. L becau e ixxxxof my overcrowded schedule, but ho told me he had definitive proof on h nd tj refute the story that Jewish business men rofited from the evacuati n. If and when we ever get an economist to do some work onthe Japanese problem, Mr. L will be of great aid. He said he w uld turn over hi oo plete file to the Study. NEW LETTER Published by News Research Service, Inc., 727 W. Seventh Street, Los Angeles, Catifornia S(MM< of *in'!. Moří ú M .fri.iu StudfnU and W,it*ri.
F ) ^ u r t . )n T e x t )u d łcu te R t ł Wo. 208 October <2,J940 trtnct Hottł JAPA-NAZIS OVER HAWAII Japan' 3 rampant militancy towards the United States is a well—coordinated by-play of Nazi expansion policies, Roots, and proof, of this fact go back to the very first year of the Hitler Era It was on January 17, 1933, that the Mikado's delegation to the League of Nations, headed by the present Nipponese Foreign Minister, Yosuke Matsuoka, left Geneva as a protest to the League's censure of Japan for its Manchukuoan venture. A fortnight later, Adolf Hitler assumed control of the Reich. One of his first startling, international gestures was to follow Japan's example and secede from the League. Ever since, in the same spirit of political parallelism, coordinated propaganda has been carried on by these Totalitarians. One of the most outstanding examples of this proced ure is an article, published under the signature of Yosuke Matsuoka, which appeared in "Liberty" (illustration on this page) of July 22, 1933o It was entitled: "Japan Puts Her Card3 on the Tableo Does she Expect to Fight the United States? — An Explan ation and a Challenge by the Man Who Walked Out on the League of Nations." B The article would have been inter 11* 1 ______esting enough if it had actually Reproduction /ro/n "Liberty" o/ flowed from Matsuoka'3 pen. Indeed, J933, 3/ioM7iip /ir*st page o/ ar it couldl Brought to Oregon by a re ticle signed, but not written, b^ lative when he was 13, the Japanese XosuTte Z^atsuoTca. ______plenipotentiary to the League had re- mained in America and, at 22, graduated from the law school of the University of Oregon. Later * when in Japan's diplomatic service, he was stationed in Washington for some years* However, Matsuoka did not write this article himself. He may have added a few touches here and there, or eliminated certain points, but the essay, as a whole, was fashioned by Hitler's most experienced, and most indefatigable, "sentiment moulder" in the United States. This fact, insignificant though it may be by itself, is of greatest Importance NOW, since it proves how closely, Page 2* and for how long, Japan and the Third Reich have both ends,with the United States of־played from America caught in the middle. Found: The Missing Link NRS is in a position to reveal the exact genesis of the Matsuoka article, which clearly delineates the full extent of Nazi-Nippon cooperation. Actual fabri cator of the Matsuoka-signed article was none other than George Sylvester Viereck 1), self-styled "Ameri can spokesman of, and recognized apologist for, Wilhelm I H After walking out on the League, Matsuoka repaired to Berlin where he was received by the late Reich- President von Hindenburg and his newly appointed Chan cellor, Adolf Hitler. The Japanese plenipotentiary then embarked on an inspection trip of Germany's most .Statement o/ organi important industrial plants, including the famous sation and a c tiv i Krupp armament factories in the Ruhr region, the ties o/ 27ie in s ti Siemens & Halske Electric Company, the Siemens- tute /or t^e Educa Schuckert Works in Tegel near Berlin and, among many tion o/ Overseas others, the well known "I. G. Farben" dye trust with Japanese, as it ap a whole string of factories along the Rhine. All pears in t/ie direc these establishments were part and parcel of Germany's tory q/ Japanese war industry, and,as such, are now under British air patriotic organisa craft attacks. tions, pubJis&ed by T?ie -Society o/ -in On March 24th, 1933, Matsuoka arrived in New York ternational Cuitur- where Chinese, and American sympathizers of the Chin aJ Relations. fFbr ese cause, demonstrated against him to the point where translation see the police had to be called out. Matsuoka declared page 7 ^. that his visit was entirely unofficial; he also made the firm statement that he would not grant any inter views....Nevertheless, he received George Sylvester ViereckL At that time, Viereck was under contract to Liberty to deliver a certain number of "big-name" articles, either written under his own name, or under his war-time pseudonym, George F. Corners, or anonymously as a "ghost". The Mat suoka article, signed, but not written, by the Japanese diplomat, was one of a whole string of similar essays which Viereck planted in Liberty, with the Mac- Fadden weekly completely unaware of the fact that it was being used to spread subtle Totalitarian propaganda. Contact with the Japanese statesman had been established by Viereck through Reich Consul General Dr. Otto Kiep in New York. He, in turn, had communicated with Dr. Otto Meissner, Hindenburg's secretary (and still serving Hitler in the same capacity). Subsequently, necessary arrangements were made so that when Matsuoka arrived in New York, Viereck was immediately received. In order to cater to the general trend of featuring "big-name" articles, Liberty released Viereck's contribution under Matsuoka's name. In this way, no suspicion of any propaganda was aroused; a reaction which would have been almost unavoidable had Viereck's name been mentioned in connection with it. He was under very heavy fire at that particular time because he was practical ly the one and only "American" stoutly defending Hitler, then only a few months in the saddle. Page 3 Ever since, Nazi and Nipponese agitators have tipped a W № a <0 off each other on propaganda possibilities and the * a a a M availability of competent apologists. <* * h * * a n M * ^ * ] a M * A MVf **!4 h w 3. g [ +t !* a *K Two-Way Propaganda Stooges * n )!( n a *'׳ M * H H a a 4- M HI M ti Nazism, but M X (t -6 a w !! * a 0) V * Mt 3 also apologists for such near-Nazi ideologies as Fascism * a a 4 A a e AM fr i. * M \ * a a Communism and Pan-Nipponism, currently known as Japan's a <* tt a a a a a : ? New-Order-in-Asia" policy. One of the most versatile״ * № a 3 * stooges — almost in the same class as Viereck but not, * a y "* K A* = ES like the latter, enjoying American citizenship -- is W X Colin Ross 2). Equally appreciated by the Berlin and n A 4 S the Tokyo governments as sub rosa propagandist, he con № tinuously informs the Germans about Japan, and vice versa. As recently as May of this year, "News From Ger -Statement o/ organi many 3) carried one of his frequent articles; entitled sation and activi The New Asia and The New Europe"; it drew parallels״ ties o/ 27ie Central jSoard o/ Overseas between Western and Eastern Hemispherical policies. Association, as it appears in t/ie di Another camouflaged German propagandist is Klaus rectory o/ Japanese Mehnert 4), long ago revealed in these pages as a dang patriotic organisa erous German spy. Of late, he has joined the list of_ (S ׳tions, pubjis/ied by hand-picked contributors to General Karl Haushofer3 T7ie Society oy In j°ur GeopoiitiTt which instigates, and inter ,blueprints for world conquest. Indeed ׳ternational CUJtMr- prets, Hitler3 aJ Relations. (For Mehnert has worked himself up into a position of master translation see spy-propagandist in all matters concerning the Pacific. page*%). At this very moment, preparatory to another vi3it to Japan, he is "studying" the California coast from his headquarters at Carmel-by-the-Sea where he shows untiring industry in taking pictures. His first stop-over on his way to Japan will be Hawaii where he may spend considerable time "studying" that particular stretch of the American shore line. Meanwhile, two other prominent Japa-Nazis have already reached Tokyo. One is Carl Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha &), titular head of the German Red Cross. After sojourning in the United States -- even managing to crash the White House — he has now been received by the Emperor of Japan, according to Transocean" 7) report. The other Nazi emissary to the Land of the״ a verbose Rising Sun is Dr. Alfred von Wegerer 8)^ outstanding German historian who spent years of his life endeavoring to exonerate the Kaiser from war guilt, and is now trying to turn the same trick for Hitler. Men With Two Countries Nazi propagandists sent to Japan, upon their return to the Fatherland, are expected to explain away a certain antipathy for the Nipponese, still surviv ing from pre-World War days when Wilhelm II expounded: "Peoples of Europe, Protect Your Holiest Possession (against the Yellow Man)t" Official Nazidom has completely overcome all anti-Japanese tendencies, even to the extent where Nipponese and German propaganda agencies frequently employ the same personnel. Both also proceed according to an Identical propaganda pattern. The German A.O (kusJands — Foreign Country — Organisation supervised by Ernst Wilhelm -Vo.Zksbund /ur das Deutsc/itum i/n Aus) ,״VDA״ Bohle 10), employes the so-called Jand^ League for Germans Living Abroad 11) as its overseas agency. The paral lel Japanese set-up is the Society for International Cultural Relations, em ploying similar propaganda methods, not so much with the idea of proselyting Page 4д among Whites, but rather to perpetuate the Mikado's hold even on American-born Japanese. It is for this reason that Washington officials keep a wary eye on the growth of this Tokyo-sponsored movement as it exerts itself with especial emphasis in the Territory of Hawaii. Just as in Third-Reich trans-Atlantic ambitions Curagao 12) is strat egically the halfway station, so Japan seizes upon Hawaii as a stepping-stone for her trans-Pacific plans of expan sion. Both Totalitarian countries, analogous to Fascist Italy, recognize dual citizenship. Just as Germans, natur alized in the United States — and even their offspring! - never lose their status as (foreign- country Germans) if they care to claim it, so American- born Japanese are regarded as subjects of the Mikado. This bi-natlonalism manifests itself with a vengeance in Hawaii. There, native-born Americans of Japanese descent are looked FTontispage o/ Ja upon by Tokyo not only as simon-pure Nipponese — no matter pan's маг not?eJ, to what extent many of them may resent it -- but they are "United 5tates- also pressed into service as "good-will ambassadors". This Japan War". .Mote situation manifests itself graphically in articles frequent Japanese saiJor ly appearing in the Nipponese. For example, Osaka Manichi /acing united of March 19, 1957, wrote: states gob. ....Loue o/ Japan. has reached its boiJing point among the second generation Japanese uho possess ^mer^can citizenship rights. Things Japanese attract them so much that hundreds o/ these American- born youths are returning in a steady stream to Japan /or education. At a joint meeting, heJd recently by the Los AngeJes Japanese As sociation and Los AngeJes Japanese Chamber o/ Commeroe, it Mas unanim ously agreed to caJJ back ("to the USAj tne second generation пои in Japan. The Wakayama Pre/ecturaJ Association in America /ormed an or ganization caJJed "Association o/ CaiJing Back Second Generation", and sent 5hiro FUkioka, 59, CeneraJ Secretary o/ Los Angeles Japanese Cham ber o/ Commerce, as special en^oy. The foreign 0//ice Mas so moped by FUkioka's pjea that it sent out Mord to a^i immigration organizations in di//erent pre/ectures to encourage the united dri^e, "Second Genera tion Return TmmediateJy to America/" FUkioka, Mho has spent nearly /orty years in the interest o/ Japan in Fdci/ic Coast states, says in part; "There are roughJy about 50,000 American-born youths between the ages o/ and <25 пои residing in Japan. Being high school graduates, they are MeJJ uersed in Japanese oZ/airs and KuuJd make ideai immi grants to TVorth America. ATot onJy Japanese but Americans, too, Mouid ме^ооте them. Their re/UsaJ to return to America Mou^d be a great com mercial Joss. Jince the enactment o/ the anti-aJien immigration Act in J924, no other people outside o/ this second-generation can take the pJace o/ our aged Japanese. "Cur situation in America is truJy a big nationaJ issue. Tt is aJ- so a great crisis to aJJ Japanese." Page 5. "State Within a State" Consolidation of the Japanese element in the Territory of Hawaii is constantly supervised by Tokyo brassheads who drop in on the different islands for observation. At the same time, camouflaged Japanese Navy auxiliaries keep an eye on United States defense operations. In 1933 — Year I of the Hitler Era! — Nippon began to lay her plans for a Pacific Blitzkrieg. In connec tion with this scheme, 62 power-driven sam pans participated in the Japanese naval manoeuvers some 700 miles off the Hawaiian Islands. Todaaiki Iizuka, Assistant Chief Reproduction o/ map, used as of the Japanese Foreign Office Information an iJJustration /or Japanese Bureau and later adviser on Foreign Affairs Mar book, "United 5tates-Japan to the Japanese Cabinet, remarked in 1936 iVar", s/ioMing imaginary Japan in connection with these manoeuvers: "The- ese submarine attacks Jauncfied oretically speaking, the islands of Kauai /rom, and on, mandated area. and Hawaii were captured Oahu's strategic posts were severely damaged. Iizuka came to Hawaii primarily to rally the Japanese to the flag of the Rising Sun. He stayed for more than a year and, during that time, assisted the Japanese Consulate in its planned consolidation of all Orientals into one solid group under Japanese leadership for the purpose of controlling Hawaii. To this end, several meetings were held at the Nipponese Consulate presided over by either Iizuka or Consuls General Tamura and Toyakicki Fukuma. Following the Nazi pattern, Nipponese stress the maintenance and extension of Japanese—language schools all over the Territory of Hawaii. Their whole mode of procedure is a repetition of methods employed by the VDAo In this con nection, William H. Fry, superintendent of the Methodist Mission, Honolulu, made the statement: Afy personal vieM/auors right o/ Japanese parents in NaMaii to teac/i their chiJdren the Japanese language, but J regret that many o/ the Japanese schools under the control o/ -Shinto cJerics emphasize rac- ia2 consciousness and Japanese 2oya2ty and ouiture in sucn a manner that the second generation o/ Japanese are /tampered in their prepara tion /or American citizenship. At a date not /ar distant, neariy aiJ o/ the Shinto schooJs Mere taught by so-caJJed .Shinto p rie sts. Whether they Mere bona /tde .Shinto priests or not, 1 am unabie to say, but they Mere admitted by our immigration Department as m inisters and Mere ciassi/ied as .Shinto priests. Jt is my opinion that the greatest stumbiing biock tn the progress o/ the Japanese-ianguage schoois in #aMan Mouid be removed i/ they had no connection Mhatsoever Mith the .Shinto reiigton. The /act that these schooJs are maintained /or purposes other than mastery o/ the language presents a d i//icu ity and a s p ir it o/ intolerance j,n comrrtunities Mhere Bhinto priests are the controiJtng in/iuence. Tht Kind o/ thing may be aii right /or Japan, but tn my qptnton tt m un /ortunate in America. On the other hand, Shichlrio Watanabe, still ( H principal of the Wauklki Japanese-language school, persists that development o/ a broad understanding among the ,American citizens o/ Japanese ancestry through the KnoMiedge o/ tMO languages and the pass ing on o/ Mhateuer naiues there are in the oJd culture o/ Japan to the Page 6 . younger generation are t^e tux? underlying objectives o/ t^e Japanese- language sc/iooi in RaMnii....in t^e beginning, because a^J tne parents Mere planning to go back to Japan, t/te Janguige scfiooJs Mere conducted according to standards in Japan. Rut noM, everyone /las given up t^e idea o/ going back to Japan. #ence, t/ie /Undamentai policies oj* con ducting t^e language classes nave been changed accordingly. The phenomenal growth of the Japanese-language schools in Hawaii presents itself statistically as follows: JAPANESE CHILDREN ATTENDING AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN HAWAII American Japanese-Language Year Public Schools Schools 1921 19,311 18,612 1925 28,383 19,648 1930 39,115 38,162 1935 45,121 42,665 1940 46,670 43,150 In this connection, it should be observed that, as to cost of maintaining Japanese-language schools, American citizens of Japanese ancestry pay 38 per cent, with the remaining 62 per cent contributed by Japanese aliens. Similar to our Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, pupils in Japanese-lan guage schools in Hawaii are taught an official Imperial Nipponese rescript, worded as follows: Hie (Japanese^ s%aJ2 buiid our capitai aii over tne Morid, and wake tne M^oie MorJd our domain/ Future plans for cooperation between local followers of the Berlin-Tokyo axis were discussed at a conference at the Los Angeles German House between Kuhn and Y. Hajaschi, Japanese undercover agent, whose address is 831 No. Townsend Ave., Los Angeles. Also present were Hermann Schwinn and Arno Risse, Bundits. Forglng Public Opinion t Close ties between local Japanese agents and the Bund are re flected in the frequent visits of Hajaschi to the Brown House, where he is promptly ushered to the Stormtrooper Room on the second floor, away NRS has long been aware] from public view, as was the case during the meeting with Kuhn. of Nippon-Nazi cooperation. Schwinn frequently returns the compliment by calling at the Japan ese Chamber of Commerce, 117 No. San Pedro St., where Hajaschi can often As early as March 15, 1939,i be found. Head of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce is a man named Kashi the News Letter reported— ^ who has frequently appeared as a public speaker at the Brown House.______Spearhead of Japanese propaganda in the U. S. is Count Aisuke When in May, 1939, Los An Kabayama, <-h^iof *Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai* (Society for International Cultural Reiati&hsju Tokyo, with offices in New York, London, Berlin, geles business men sailed for Rome, Paris. "---say t3.5nn.noo is the amount spent Japan "to study trade condi to change U. S. dislike ot JapJit h U'edtment of unma-r^imeof in difference. The Japanese Diet's official budget for this pu?p*&a^was tions in the Orient", this p-^ News Letter pointed out thatp&*־Japanese business men made up the balance. Frightene3 .42,000,000 the Gallup poll that only 1% of the U. S. Public was in sympathy with Japan, Kabayama came to New York, took over the long established Japan Institute, made it the U. S. branch of the KBS. moved it to an elaborate Cooperating with The Soc 10,000 sq. ft. office in Rockefeller Center. With Japanese control of all towns with cable or wireless offices, iety for International Cultur no news gets through from China which isn't Japanese censored. Domei, al Relations is The Institute official Japanese news agency, even caused coloring of news filed by AP and UP due to existing lucrative contracts. NRS realizes, of course, for the Education of Overseas that occasional accurate information reaches Manila via mail and is Japanese (illustration on page then cabled or wirelessed from there. Trade junkets such as is being enjoyed by the L. A. business men 2). It was founded in Novem is all part of a Japanese program to: 1. Create better understanding ber, 1933 — and again Year I between U. S. and Japan: 2. Wake U. S. citizens believe that Japan is not exploiting China, is only ridding it of *Communism": 3. Promote of the Hitler Era pops upt Its feeling in America that China is too stupid to comprehend menace of president is Viscount Kikujiro Soviet Union, that Japan is merely saving China from itself: 4. Keep U. S. hands off the war: 5. Increase Japanese buying here: 6. Interest Ishii, former Japanese Ambas U. S. investments in Manchukuo and Japanese-controlled China: 7. Revamp sador to the United States* the U. S. foreign policy which is rapidly leaning toward the boycott of aggressor nations. ______— managing director is Todashi Sato. According to a prospec- Page 7. tus featured in an official handbook of The Society for International Cultural Relations, the "Institute" serves to educate the children o/ Japanese Jiving abroad in order to establish a /oM.n,datio7i /or their /uture oversea development; and bg soJving the problem o/ the education o/ these children, to encourage oversea expan sion (.'J. According to the same prospectus, the work of the "Institute" is carried on by fJj Maintenance o/ dorniitcrtesy (^<2^ goung people's protective associa .aJJ other necessary ^orKs (״tion^ (3^ special educational guidance; (4 headquarters are maintained at ^2, 3-chrome, Afarunouchi, lo^cgo. The comprehensive aims of this organization also were succinctly stated by ex-Ambassador Ishii as follows: The Institute o/ Overseas People's Education is an organisation /or in/using the Japanese spirit into the second generation o/ Japanese abroad. In other mords, Jeave the second generation in the 2and o/ their residence but don't Jet than /orget the Japanese spirit. In buy ing, select Japanese goods; in voting, cast baJiots /or politicians /riendJg to Japanese. Auxiliary to The Society for International Cultural Relations and The In stitute for the Education of Overseas Japanese is a third organization whose name is best translated as Central Board of Overseas Associations. It was created in 1923 as nucleus for world-wide Pan-Nipponism. Its president is Gosuke Imai, and its secretary, Yoshihiro Manakao This organization sets forth its make-up, aims and activities (illustration on page 3) as follows: It is composed o/ Overseas Societies o/ each pre/ecture, and o/ people having TrnoMiedge and experience in oversea expansion. Its ob ject is to coordinate tne relations between societies o/ each pre/ec ture, and to secure the deveJopment o/ these societies. It carries on its activities bg investigation, research, and in/ormation on the con ditions o/ the territories inhabited bg Japanese emigrants; various Mor^s to stimulate pubJic tncught on oversea questions; guidance and education towards oversea expansion, and assistance /or the training o/ capabJe men; assistance to oversea societies o/ t^e various pre/ec tures; contact and union K?ith various kindred societies; MorTf relating to the support o/ /riendships M?ith Japanese Jiving abroad; pubJication o/ a periodical organ; aJJ Morhs judged necessarg. headquarters are Jo- cated at Fanshi XaiTfan, JVo. 7, 1-chrome, Yurahucho Rdjimachi-hu, ToTfgo. Japanese Paper Bullets In the same way as all Nazi overseas organizations are drawn upon to dis seminate swastika literature, so Japanese organizations are enlisted to spread the gospel of Pan-Nipponism. Bales and bales of this material -- similar to Nazi "literature"t — were unearthed by United States intelligence and customs officers, especially in Hawaii. Generally, subversivist Pan-Nipponese litera ture is brought into the Territory of Hawaii by American citizens of Japanese Page 80 ancestry. Some of these propaganda books, pamphlets and leaflets advocate the formation of a Japanese Navy League, and demand, in no uncertain words, that Hawaii be utilized for a Japanese naval base. Among the literature con fiscated were Nipponese newspapers, loudly praising the loyalty of Hawaiian- born Japanese to the mother-country. One of these reports asserted that Jap anese in Hawaii, including the younger, American-born, generation, had signed with their own blood pledges of loyalty to the Mikado. The most outstanding exhibit of Japanese subversivist literature confis cated by United States officials is a book (illustration on page 4) of pocket United States-Japanese War". The volume is written in the״ size, entitled style of a novel. The hero is a Japanese who commits sabotage, blows up Amer ican naval vessels, etc., etc. Among others, the book tells the following in cident: An American battleship visits Japan. The hero blows up the ship. America demands punishment of the culprit. To satisfy the United States, he is condemned to death and led before a firing squad. The commanding officer orders his soldiers to shoot the culprit but they are reluctant about execut ing him. They shoot into the air. Inasmuch as the command to shoot him has been given, the Japanese consider the "hero" killed, and the incident is re ported to Washington through official Japanese channels. -- Unquestionably, a story of this type is intended to make potential saboteurs feel that Japan will protect them. The "United States-Japan War" phantasmagoria even contains imaginary bat tle maps (illustration on page 5) of marine attacks launched from, and on, mandatory territories* In order to keep Hawaii-Japanese in line, Shintoism, as Japan's established church, is drawn upon for yeoman services. No opportunity is ever missed in Hawaii to bring home to the Japanese living there, Nippon- or American-born, that Shintoism is, and must forever remain, their religion. Such occasions as the dedication of schools, bridges, club rooms, etc., are seized upon to give Shinto priests a chance to perform Shinto rituals and preach the Shinto gospel. Whereas the quintessence of Nazi ideology is expressed in the slogan BJut und Frde (Blood and Soil), Shintoism preaches all-enduring filial love. Accordingly, in the same way that the Nazis use "race" as their war-cry, the Japanese draw upon ancestor-worship* It is this exploitation of the tenets of an established church which gives Japanese propaganda a decided advantage over Nazi propaganda, greatly facilit ating the growth of Pan-Nipponism in the Territory of Hawaii. n:-inm-K- ;nnnnn<-K -H-x:״g-x- x THE NAZI "ANTI-MONROE" DOCTRINE According to General Karl Haushofer's (see page 3) "geopolitical" Nazi world conception, as stated in his published works: "N o race has German. It is German! A strong greater claim to rule in the United to assert ourselves as a world- determined army of occupation States of America than the Ger power, we will be able to count under dynamic National-Socialist manic race. Our vision of a Ger- upon the millions of Germans who command can be recruited over manically dominated Western have helped make the North Amer night in certain parts of the United Hemisphere will not be obscured by ican continent the wealthiest on the red-brown- and black-skinned the globe. Never shall we forget States. The job of taking over races who populate almost half of that the substantial portion of the North America wilt be compara America. When we will be ready United States.does not need to be tively simpie." For* additional information on na/Hes and /acts, see NEo bacA issues as /oi- ioMS; ^37; ^-#34; ^.gg^- ^99^ ^ 79^ 3/29/39: ^-^03; '^-^206'; #34; #80; ^-^97; ^77; 9;^ 78; .־;״^lo)-#77; ^53; ^32; 77-^---(12 ;#53 ;78^ ;96 ;77^ NEWS LETTER Published by News Research Service, Inc., 7046 HoHywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California Space permit! oniy high!ighting o/ new:. More Jetaiied in/wmation is avuiiabte to !eriom Student! and Writer!. F igu re!) )n T e x t )n d tcate R e f 709 October 9, 7940 erence Notes at end of tsaue AXIS AIDED BY JAPA-NAZI AUXILIARIES IN U.S. Japanese propaganda on the West Coast, similar to Nipponese activities on the East Coast (NRS of last week), is carried on by Nazi-inspired agitators. In San Francisco, for example, this work is entrusted to one Ralph Townsend 1 ). Seeking For״ The High Cost of Hate" (January, 1939), and״ He is the author of eign Trouble" (May, 1940), both published under his own imprint. Townsend's pamphlets (illustration on page 2) -- pathologically anti-British and passion ately pro-Reich -- are crammed with muddled history and juggled statistics. They aim, as do so many others, to de flect American attention from totalitar ian danger by lulling the United States into the same sense of false security which exposed France and England to the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo menace. The just-concluded. Eurasian anti democracies pact sprang no surprise on the State Department. Washington knew that something of the kind was in the wind ever since, in 1926, the Japan- Znstitut (illustration on this page) was Reproduction o/ t/ie ex-A&iser's founded in Berlin. Twenty-five years "YeJJoM? PeriJ" drawing. During t/ie ago, Wilhelm II (illustration on this *yi.I/ie.iminian Fra, reproductions o/ page) had seized upon "the yellow devils" t^is drawing couJd be /ound in most f or pan-Germanic propaganda, just as upper classrooms.______Hitlerer later utilized ^the red devils" of Russia for his purposes. Since Hitler's 3 APAN )NSHTUT rise to power, co operation between Tokyo and Berlin has been brought to the nth degree of per fection, especially at such halfway sta tions as San Fran cisco, where Town send holds aloft the Captioned "Ten years Japan institute", t/iis article Swastika-Rising Sun printed in si^ languages — di#e7Js on t/ie achievements banner, and at Los o/ t^e Jate /idmiraJ PauJ ReAnke, president o/ tAe in Angeles, where ex- stitute. 2%e article maTtes muc/i o/ tne /act t/iat "a American Hermann M. similar institute /!as meantime been /bunded in To/tgo, Schwinn ^) dissemin its tPorTt being analogous to t/iat o/ t/ie Berlin insti ated poisonous Japa- tution". ______Nazi propaganda. In- Page 2 . deed, Mikado's menials and Hitler's helots have been working hand-in- glove to such an extent that, occa sionally, the Los Angeles Deutsches Enge frcunckdiafilichc Haus would receive an official Jap Zusammcnarbcti anese inquiry on how Bundits were countering anti-Nazi movements, so r Mw de- Wett *tr )a that Japanese propagandists might t Vtrtrtitr - QMAt OrnadtcrMc tn VftWrn follow suit. *** " *ot Japa-Nazi cooperation was car ried on steadily through the years. Reproduction o/ an (MationaJ -Social Periodically, scholars of both na ist Correspondence^ reiease o/ March <26, tions would get together to review J939, entitled; "CJose and FriendJy Co past performances and lay plans for operation". introductory note states; new propaganda campaigns. One of "The Cerman-Japanese meeting o/ Academ the most important conferences of icians at RYtzbuheJ in TyroJ his yieJded this kind was held on March 26,1939 yaiuabJe resuJts /or /Urther G^rman-jqp- when, according to NSK (National So anese collaboration in cuJturaJ reaJms. cialist Correspondence), a meeting The Cerman-Jdpanese science exchange.... of minds was held at Kltzbuhel, Aus MiJJ be /urther extended...."______tria (illustration on this page)o Such German-Japanese confabs of "academicians" were merely one of many "ex- change-student" devices, so dear to #err Doctor Goebbels' heart. "Meetings of minds", such as that at Kitzbuhel, are designed to ensnare foreign-country in telligentsia so as to use them -- frequently unknown to themselves -- as bell wethers in spreading the Nazi gospel. One of the most outstanding "exchange (propaganda) academicians" of this stripe was Bernhard, Prince von Lippe 3), now in Japan (t). He sailed there on July 19th, last, under pressure of NRS revelations of May 22nd, last. "Ex" Marked the Kaiser Although a goodl! portion of the German people "N*. meanwhile has forgoti en the Kaiser, they are still under the spell of hi s emphatic warning, addressed to European nations, to ^ "guard their most sacred THE Of 7W<4r fyfRT possession" against the HIGH COST Yellow Peril. Accordingly, " Ja-PAN-Germanic tendencies OF HATE of the Hitler government SEEKING had to be popularized by a RALPH TOWNSEND general press campaign FOREIGN among swastika adherents TROUBLE in the Reich as well as 1 71-* overseas. Racism, with -*** Aryans" serving as the״ ?AGAMST . !*M U— < h* RALPH TOWNSEND crowning glory of creation, * had been preached by the ^ Aaaaflt* wwt? Nazis so long that, even tually, an instinctive con th. i- E — *** **<) A 1 .M*. 4.7 (5— mw* !0#) pecially the yellow, devel oped. To slay the yellow Pric# !5 C#aL· dragon of Kaiser-inspired fear, heavy broadsides had rront coders o/RaJph * to be fired by the German Townsend's pro-Japa- Pric* 35 C*nt* !9 4 0 Propaganda Ministry, some JVaai pamphlets. H of them in the form of Page 3. double-page feature articles (illustration on page 4), appearing in Freude und Arbeit (Joy TOKYO GAZETTE and Work), Doktor Goebbels' multi-lingual, de luxe propaganda magazine. Not only the A MONTHLY REPORT OF CURRENT POLICIES. abundant pictorial material of these articles, OFFICIAL STATEMENTS AND STATISTICS but especially wording of captions, was de signed to cure Nazis at home and abroad of the yellow-danger neurosis with which Wilhelm II Soldiers of״ had innoculated them. Entitled the Sun; The Sons of the Samurai", the pictor ial material of one of these articles dwells exclusively on Japanese military prowess. Ac tion shots depict scenes taken at military schools in Tokyo. In Goebbels' official Eng lish translation of one caption, the following Reproduction o/ /ront cover o/ statement occurs: (a^ printed-in-Japan counter part o/ the printed-in-i/.S/l 4.Z2 the /oreign military attaches are German Library o/ in/crmation agreed as to the enormous perseverence and publication — a /act conclu the exceJJent training (o/ Japanese soi- sively borne out by fbj edito dieryj. (It also speaks of) the military rial pre/ace. spirit Mhich has ajMays been ouJtivated among the young Japanese and by the Jamur- ai, the brave, unsei/ish, simpie Mar- gt, riors o/ the ioMer nobiJity, tohose mode o/ ii/e Mas zeajousjy copied bg the middJe-c2ass and the peasantry ^ /rom Mhich the soidiers oame. As Nazi propaganda headquarters for the West Coast, the Los Angeles Deutsches Raus ^) plays a part commensurate with that of the German Library of Information S) of New York City. While the latter specializes in ^ "literary" agitation tending to further ^ Hitler's trans-Atlantic plans, the former M tries to smooth the path of Nazi trans- № Pacific expansion. For that reason, it ; seemed especially important to the German Propaganda Ministry to allay all pi*## ** Yellow Peril apprehensions among West Coast Bundits. Accordingly, "suitable" propaganda matter was dumped at the Los Angeles Deut sches Raus and, in turn, distrib uted from there. Random samples of such "literature" from NRS files yield such exhibits as the following: (1) "Tokyo Gazette" Do״ (illustration on page 3); (2) ntt tit ha. nn intmtinn to f^rtn. or Jn<" in. any t-pecia! You Know That....?" (illustration on this page); (5) "Japan's Pro \ranvtt!!*crh{'v Reproduction, yrom "^reude und Arbeit" f Especia-ZJy noteworthy in this reproduction, are the /ive Jines at the bottom, emphasised in italics, ?^ey c^earjy indicate that the underJyiny trend o/ Japa-A/asi propaganda is to puJJ the wooJ over y^mer- ican eyes, pretending that /natters Asiatic do not Aside from enlisting Hudson's aid, other Nazi auxiliaries were called to the swastika, among them Ralph Townsend. Duplicating Prince Lipp e's tech- nlque of waging propaganda war by lecturing to selected groups, Townsend trav* eled up and down the Pacific ^ t Coast to address American Le gion groups, service clubs, f AS)A € Reproduction o/ two seJ/- e^pJanatory cartoons pub lished in "Japan's Pro blems", Japan-China pict orial primer. Both draw- inys conjure up the buya- boo o/ "Lebensraum" (eco nomic FJboM RoomJ as the Japanese have come to a dopt this made-in-Germany ter?n /or their own purpo ses. Page 6. etc. NRS of March 1, 1959, spoke of Townsend as a .?an Francisco pamphleteer and aiJeged Japanese propaganda agent /or CaJi/ornia fwhoj espouses the cause o/ the dictators and revives the charge that the ylmerican press is attempting to involve ylmerica in fo r eign Mars. (continued on next page.) TnWNSEND_PA№HLETS ENDORSED BY U.S.NAZIS, ET AL "A Truly Free Press' Box 2630______TH E PELLEY PUBLISHERS Asheville, N. C. I s Mwoh.rw \ O f T h * A U G U S T 7 , 1 9 4 0 Soo^^incSoaEiY Ww wl*!) tw A Mw writtww Japan Isn't Kosher ^y Halw^ T.wM.t^* #y^ly "SiEKMtS f&MKSN TROUBLE" i * r g . brwy^wrw . . w t . i M 1U) y* Our *Must* R.ading List On. of th. Watton's gr.at.st n..d: has b..n a tr.atis. on fals. propaganda, and now Ralph Towns.nd. not.d authority on lnt.rnational politios, has fiH.d th. bill with his book. *S..*ine Foreign Troubl..* Th. announo.d purpos. *is to point out frauds in th. . 4 . ^ * / oolossal publicity campaign now b.ing wag.d in n.wspapwrs and -agatin.s and ov.r th. radio to involv. Amorioa in for.ign strif..' This bookl.t of 110 pag.s pr.s.nts hundr.ds of amating facts which prov. th. conspiracy and .xplain its ..thods. So convincing is this book that w. b.li.ve th. circulation of B.000,000 oopt.s would r.volutioniz. th. ^ /V ^ / thinking of the country and assure peace. One copy oosts 38 cents, postpaid: in lots of t.n or .or., 20 c.nts a copy. Address, ?rank Towns.nd. Box 347, San Francisco, California. Th. J^ .t Tru. A t.oeitt*., Japa-Ad^i Auxiliaries Aid_ Axis; PeiJey's "Liberation" "sums up the case"* fb) James True's "jfndustriaJ ControJ Reports", fc^ Charies P. -Hud son's'"America In Danger/" and (d) CharJes №. FhiJiips' "The individualist put Townsend pamphJets on Peguired Reading List. (ej Z&vid Baxter o/ i e I Republic ^ocietg o/ ^an Fernardino, Caii/. , pushes saJe o/ Pa^ph־5ocia Townsend's "-Seeding foreign Trouble" with special nandbiiio______Page 7. The High Cost of Hate" and "Seeking Foreign״ ,The two Townsend pamphlets Trouble", clearly indicate that here is a man well able to play the Nazi game. Townsend's writings reveal a gift for distorting history and glibly indulging in lopsided dialectics to camouflage his unquestionable pro-Nazi leanings . He is further exposed by the company he keeps and the efforts they make to push the distribution of WAFt? his pamphlets. Not only was his "Seeking Foreign Trouble" stimulated by a handbill issued by David Baxter AMERICANS of The Social Republic Society of San Bernardino, Cal., but it also appeared on the "required reading" lists, re MUSTTMNK! gularly appearing in James True's "Industrial Control Re .America In Dangert", and Charles W״ ports" 13), Hudson's Do You Want A Phillips' "The Individualist" 14). Another member of the Bolshevised China? pro-Japa-Nazi pressure group is William Dudley Pelley 1-J* In his "Liberation" of August 7th last (illustration on Chang Kai Sheh ia in partemerahip this page), he squarely lined himself up with all those with Moacow who defend Japan in order to further anti-democratic to Should the Japeneae be defeated M os cow wiH be aucceaaful in Bolahevi- talitarianism in general. aing China aa planned. Then will come the reign of terror aa in Ruaaia where thirty million people were McCormack Act Watertight? aiaughtered or atarved to death after the revolution. The Chineee would be made a nation of alavea under * Red Dictator. Japa-Nazi cooperation, in its most recent phases, once JAPAN IS WAGING OUR BATTLH more Illustrates the possibility that there is more than FOR CIVILIZATION one way to kill a propaganda cat. It brings into sharp What the American people forget ia relief the fact that by no means have all "agents of for that the Ruaaiant and the Chineae out number the Japaneae 10 to 1 and that eign principals" actually complied with the McCormackActo the Japanaae. not having !oat their aenae of aelf preaervation, yeera ago Many of Goebbels' sub-rosa menials employ extremely subtle recogniaed that only by being pre pared for the emergency which haa camouflages. For example, Friedrich E. Auhagen 1^) tried occured could their people be aefe from annihilation. to hide his activities behind the title of a "Columbia /apan /a ńgMng our and if Professor". In reality, he never was more than a mere ^łmericani rea/ited fAe danger tAey wouVd m ałe a commfrciaV treefy w M lecturer in German from 1930 to 1935 at Seth Low Junior /apan at once. College, Brooklyn, N. Y* Gen. Jamea G Harbord. Cheirmen o f the Board of Radio Corporation of America, aaid on Sept. 13, 1933 over Auhagen, who was recently arrested in Los Angeles when the radio: on the point of leaving for the Fatherland on board a Reproduction o/ Japanese (t) steamer, carried with him sheaves of docu- Claries tV.#udson's ments and reports Contents of his files clearly indicst- pro-Japa-A'a-si pa/n— ed that he was not only a Nazi sympathizer but a full- p/iiet. fledged Goebbels propagandist, NRS repeatedly exposed Auhagen's subversive activities, especially in the Issues of September 14, 1939, and August 23, 1939. When Auhagen now appears before the Dies Committee to testify, his own statements will make it clear that he belongs in the same class with Prince Lippe, who actually -- albeit hesitatingly! — complied with the McCormack Act. Indeed, observers of Dies Committee proceedings expect the Auhagen case to demonstrate whether or not the McCormack Act is really watertight. A%S bacTt issues as /oi- For additionai in/onnation_on names and /acts, see 2 o M K ? ; i;-3/J5/39; 3/2/39, #63; #32; s;-#203; 9)-#95; #77; #67, #96; #36; '^-#98; #92 # 3 2 ; # 6 4 . *************** NEWS LETTER Published by News Research Service, Inc., 727 W. Seventh Street, Los Angeles, California .!y o/ n<*u!. Mort detaifid in/ormation uvutfabft to Mrtotn StwdfnU and Writtr! ״Spoct o rt^urco tn Text htdtratf! EnHHnnnnnHnnnHHHnnnnHnnnnnnHHHHHHB^b. JJ3 A^o^ember 6,J940 frenct xt end o! NAZIFIED WHITE RUSSIANS SABOTAGING DEMOCRACY American taxpayers are still footing, at least partly, the Nazi propagan da bill!) in the United States. Thousands of bags of "ideologically coordi nated literature" arrive in this country by way of Siberia. Conversely, very little United States mail is shipped to Germany. As a result, the pre-war standard of a fair exchange of postal services is completely upset, with Amer ica burdened with a far greater share of work and overhead. Latest consignment of Made-in-Berlin hate books and pamphlets to reinforce the America- Nazi sector is a volume entitled #eich des Jd- GERMANY tans (Satan's Realm), FLEiKHHAUER published under the im BiSKOUPSKY P0L№D ־ENGLAND ) SCHELECHOV MRBtN print of the Eu*3sisc&e U.5.A. N.E.MARKOFF ROPZAEVSKY JVation.ai-Veriap (Nation V0NSIAT5KY !VANOFF S.RA6EV al Russian Publishers), 8.BRA50L S.RA5HEFF K0 5 ITSIN 5CHOEP5 Berlin. It was launched "R05S1YA" in the United States by RtBAKOFF PRANCE MGOMOVfftH an editorial (illustra 806U5LAVSK! tion on page 2) appear TURKUL ing in Doctor Goebbels' World Service''^*), now״ KR'JTSCHKOFF N.RUSZK! frankly described as International Corres״ MOROCCO pondence for Enlighten POSTARNAKOrF ment on the Jewish Ques MALY S0.AMER!CA RODK)NOW tion". 5UBHATINE ! ALGERIA KVACHNtN BULGARtA What makes this K.P.KONMREFF latest contribution to ! CONGO intellectual well-poi soning especially inter esting is the fact that it flowed from the pen of the late I. A. Rodi- onow. That being the case, it is by no means TTie Russo-^ascist Double Eag2e Bestriding the iVorid in just another scurrilous CJose imitation o/ the G^obe-EncircJing RmastiTta. anti-Semitic farrago of ---ylnaJogous to the ^L. 0.(FbreignJ Section o/ the Aia^ri an unbalanced mind. On Partg, Russian ^Hiscists o/ aJJ factions ha^e planted the contrary, analysis their propagandists in both hemispheres. The abo^e shows that such Jew-bait- graph Jists onJg the more prominent subpersipists re- ing as the volume con ^eaied in ToedtJi's secret archive as "boring /rom tains merely smokescreens Mi thin" under the o^d Romano/y double eagie.______an attack over a much Page 2. broader front, directed against World Democracy in general. It also bears out that the Hitler Era revives — although in different form — the Russo- German "Re-Insurance Treaty" with which Prince von Bismarck successfully se cured the Reich's eastern border. This treaty was discarded only after young William II, in 1890, "dropped the pilot" (of the ship of state) in the person of "the Iron Chancellor (illustration on page 3) who had forged the Second Reich" in the course of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Ever since the Nazis aspired to the leadership of the Third Reich, steps have been taken to bring about a German-Russian agreement which would serve the same ends as did Bismarck's famous Re-Insurance Treaty. In this endeavor, the Reich was willing to tie up with either a Fascistic or a Communistic Russia. NRS files contain, among other related documents, a sheaf of letters written during the first year of the Hitler Era by the then Americagerman Ftthrer Walter Reinhold 3) of the Friends of the New Germany 4). Addressed to Jakob Leimann, then leader of the German-Russian Alliance of Chicago, one of these letters (illustration on page 4) contains two references clearly indica ting Intentions on the part of Hitlerites to re-establish with Russia relations akin to those favored by Bismarck. The letter, among other remarks, makes this promi se: What the Russian Author L A. Rodionow wrote concerning the Jews. Jn case you are here, /ree ocean, The "Russis&e National-Verlag", Berlin, has during passage couJd be arranged /or you. this year published a book entitled "Reidt des Satans T?iere/ore, buy JVO ticket — do you which has appeared in the Russian language and is the me? work of the late Russian author I. A. Rodionow. It is yet the second volume of the author s work concerning the sinister powers of Jewry. Also very significant is the conclu Regarding the first volume which appeared under the sion of the letter: ReiJ DeutschJand/ title "Sohne des Teufels" "World-Service" IV/t?, i8 and ReiJ Russiandsdeutsohe.' (Hail GermanyL V/6 has already published articles. Fail RussogermansH What the author thought about the Jews is best seen from the following quotation, from page !66: Subsequently, Reinhold arranged for "Jewry may be compared to a pump. It pumps blood Leimann's free passage to Germany where and sweat put-cf all naiiops. Jeviiy is-a deadest epidemtc-^ the Russogerman promptly became a member Reproduction /rom_ ^orJd 5eruice, of Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry Staff* recommending Rodionov's anti-Dem- The special task assigned to him was to ocratic poJume.______[line up Russo-Germans in the United States and Canada as Nazi Fifth Columnists. A Voice from the Grave The late Rodionow's activities have been scrutinized by NRS from the very time he came to this country on a "business trip" in Spring, 1921. A collec tion of Rodionow's letters shows that he carried on a very extensive corres pondence with such notorious Russian-Fascist anti-Democrats as Boris Brasol ) and Major-Ceneral Count Cherep Spiridovlch ^). Rodionow made his home in Japan but, distance notwithstanding, kept in closest contact with White Russian cells all over the world. He was constantly in touch especially with Boris Toedtli *7), notorious go-between of Russo-Fascists and Hitler Nazis, maintaining offices in Berlin and Berne. Documents found in Toedtli's secret archive after the Russified Swiss had been arrested as a spy (as related in News better of last week), frequently mention Rodionow. In view of this, information unearthed when Toedtli's papers were examined, assumes utmost importance revealing, as it does,innumerable details of a world-wide net of Russo-Nazi subversivism. There is no better proof of criminal designs on the part of Russian Fas cists than a secret order dated January 26, 1936, found by the Swiss govern ment in Toedtli's safety deposit boxes. Above the signature of К. V. Rodzaev- sky, chief of the Russian Fascist Union (R.F.U.) and S. Rasheff, another of ficer of the same organization, it instructs: Page 5. JVo. 50. Prepare murder o/ a weJJ-known o/fioiaj o/ the 0 P y on own territory, no Jater than January Jst, J937. Rodzaevsky is still "doing business" from his office in Harbin, although headquarters of the R.F.U. are now located in the United States. One of his "non-periodic informatory letters" as Secretary of the Russian Fascist Union (reprinted in last week's News Letter), was published in the Americagerman Bund's official weekly, Deutsc/ier ^ec^ru/ und Beobachter 8) of December 29. 1938. ^ ' Swastika Money Flowed Freely Toedtli had been indicted under the so-called Spy Act of the Swiss Federal Council of June 21, 1935, because he had conveyed to'foreign political organiz ations reports prejudicial to the safety of individuals living in Switzerland. Not only Toedtli but also Colonel Ulrich Fleischhauer 9) was charged with vio lation of the Swiss Spy Act. However, since the German authorities refused to collaborate with the Swiss courts, the Fleischhauer case had to be dropped eventually. Many of the Toedtli documents, unearthed by Swiss authorities, established the fact that Swiss so-called "national circles" depended on the Reich for fin ances. In most of these financial negotiations, Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry was instrumental in securing the necessary funds. In this respect, a letter written by Toedtli on August 3, 1936, to 1. W. Ritshkoff in Belgrad, is very enlightening when it says: The centraJ o//ices o/ the Russian Fbscist union wiJJ gipe no money, and i/ they do, it won't be enough. №e cannot reJy on our own resources because we are aiJ poor. There is onJy the hope Je/t /or support /Tom Germany....in May, i had a taJK with in/iuentia2 persons in the (Reich,) Propaganda Ministry. They promised me a subsidy but wiJi support onJy a newspaper aJready published and sure 9/ a /air circulation....About the middJe 0/ -September, the Congress 0/ the Aagi Party is to be heJd in Nuremberg. Shouid you or anybody eJse 0/ our comrades wish to go there, Jet me know in timey i'Ji get you /ree accomodation and cards. To what extent Toedtli had to rely on Fleisch hauer as financial go-between becomes evident from a letter addressed to Schelechov in Warsaw, under date of May 30, 1936: ....There shou-Id be hardiy any di//icui- ties, because Fieischhauer promised me to intervene /or us with RimmJer, and that man, o/ course, means business.... Reproduction 0/ modern history's most /amous car toon, which appeared in London Punch on March *29, 2890. Emperor ^iJJiam ii, then in the second year 0/ his reign, had Just turned out iron ChanceJJor Bismarck because the Jatter insisted on renewing the so-caJJed Russo-German Re-insurance Treaty which secured Germany's eastern /rontier. it was primarily beoause 0/ this inter/erence on the part 0/ the Xaiser that the Reich — necessarily /ight- ing on TWO /ronts — Jost Worid Mar i.______That the R.F.U.'s hopes were based on solid ground is shown in Toedtli's letter to one "Peter Nikolayevitsch", dated October 16, 1935$ f have at iast Tieues Ja':ooolo. achieved what Z wouJd ./erhalten. never have dreamt o .׳Vom 2.Jan.Brief danlrcnr fiderscb das *eht a^er nun nlcht me h r an, dass ich euoh Beiden h.'oibe,denn zu glaicher Zelt kam der v.T^rhard A person who has been a׳anau daaselbo"sc- /riend o/ mine /or many aufs 3anze, Sorge. years spoke to HitJer arte nun ab. about the R.F*.!7. and J״ abe den Kampf in rler Zeitung gestoppt und^ sollte ja welter nix sain, al3 elne oeffentllce Drohung und nun will ich sehen wie sie sich dazu stellen; have received a Jetter -laufen worfen hier. 3in in wenlgen /rom the F&hrer's Chan׳ en׳ Der 27.wird alles ueber Taren in "fashincton.nahr dann spaeter. ta r.an es einrlchten, dass cuumsonat ceJJory, expressing his.׳.fetn du h i e r T Although the fight against Communism was put forward as their main object, all factions of White Russian subversivists are associated with anti-Democratic ideas and aspirations in general; a willing price paid by these Fascist Rus sians for affiliation with Nazism. Toedtli of the Third Reich Toedtli and his activities are of such great importance because he is one of the most outstanding figures among international Russo-Nazi conspirators. Specifically, Toedtli was Fleischhauer's paid agent for Switzerland, working there in the interest of World Service. Living in Switzerland, Toedtli had ac cess to many countries which had banned World Service, and which he flooded with Fleischhauer's periodical through the Swiss mails. Although himself a Page 5. Swiss citizen, Toedtli was at all times aware of the fact that he was a paid agent of National So cialism. Among his letters is one dated June 15, 1956, addressed to Fleischhauer, in which Toedtli asks: "I am your agent, am J not, as MeJJ as an agent o/ the Third Reich?" Through Fleischhauer, Toedtli — as borne out by his letters -- was connected with the leading party officials of the Third Reich. Some of these documents substantiate the fact that much of the vast sums of money used by Toedtli were remitted from Berlin through the .SchMei-serische Verrech- nungsste^^e (Swiss Clearing House), Zurich. As Leader in Europe of the Russian Fascists, Toedtli enjoyed a far greater measure of independence than as Fleischhauer's agent. Sections of the Russian Fascist Union in Belgium, France, England, Italy, Algeria, Morocco, and the Congo Territory were un der his jurisdiction. Working along lines laid down by, or in agreement with, Rodzaevsky, chief of the Russian Fascists in Harbin, Toedtli in structed (from Berne) the various regional leaders and overseas, On April 4, 1956 he was Reproduction o/ one o/ in Europe many jVagi posters Mhich entrusted by Rodzaevsky Mere piastered aiJ over to negotiate Mith the german authorities, SMit,e:er.Zand as eariy as as representative o/ the R.F. U. 2933, inviting HitJerite 5Miss to attend "^ijeman- nentag", the ^Miss-Rasi The document, written both in Russian and Chin equivalent to German Day ese, concludes with the significant sentence: he^d annua^Jy by German- Americans throughout the This deposition made at the German ConsuJ United .States. ____ ate at Harbin, /or con/irmation o/ the above signature by the Commissioner o/ Deeds, Afitro/an M*assijeu7itsch Ktorov. Harbin, 4priJ 6, J936. The choeps־German ConsuJ, 3 A party order, dated Berne, May 2, 1956, attests to the fact that Rodzaev- sky was recognized by the German Police as chief of the Russian Fascists. Be sides, the German authorities appointed General W. von Biskupsky 10)^ whose sympathies for Russian Fascism were well known, as Commissioner for (Fascistic) Russian Affairs in Germany. Although officially the central office of the R.F.U. was in Harbin, Berlin always was -- and still is -- the spiritual center of Russian Fascism. When, in Spring, 1956, a congress was to take place there, Toedtli wrote to R. P. Kotzebue of Lausanne on March 25, 1956, that such Russian organisations are to be represented Mhich are agreed upon the program o/ an active struggle Mith aii means at their disposal. The congress' aim was to create a National United Front. In a letter to Schelechov at Warsaw, dated March 25, 1956, Toedtli wrote: R.J'D. accepts, in principle, the invitation to the congress. Toedtli's activities glaringly reveal themselves in a letter dated June 5, 1956. which he wrote to Rasheff: Page 6 Besides, Me must not stag in Berlin, but in Munich, or there abouts, because Munich is the centre o/ the JVa Switzerland was just that — and the Nazis certainly made the most of itL The Swiss Nazis behaved with the same brazenness as their Americagerman com rades. And like them, they organized "German Days" -- except that, in Switz erland, such Nazi confabs (illustration on page 5) were called Alemannentag Alemanni" -- from the third to the fifth century, a confeder״ The Day of the) acy of South German tribes). Switzerland was only one of the democratic countries where, analogous to the United States, Hitler Nazis and Russo-Fascists availed themselves of every statute and loophole of free speech laws to carry on subversive propaganda with the intention of undermining the government of the very country whose hospitality they enjoyed. Not until last week (October 26, 1940), did the Swiss government take de cisive steps in these matters. Then it finally announced the arrest of numer ous officials and employees of a widespread Swiss totalitarian organization. Called The Swiss Union of Friends of Authoritative Democracy, it was one of the many smokescreens set up in Switzerland by anti-Democratic Russo-Fascists and Pan-German Nazis. In scrutinizing correspondence and literature found in the office of The Swiss Union of Friends of Authoritative Democracy, it was discovered that the newly-formed front organization was headed by notorious Swiss Nazi leaders, such as the former Major Ernst Leonhardt and Franz Burri, now in Germany. The Bridge to America All the time that Toedtli was carrying on Fifth-Column work in Switzerland he kept in close touch with Rodzaevsky in Harbin, who, in turn, acted as post office for most of the executives of the Russian Fascist Union and the Russian Imperialistic Union. Outstanding among the different regional and local FUhrers was Count Ana- stase A. Vonsiatsky H), editor and publisher of "The Fascist" 12.), pf Putnam, Conn. Married to a wealthy American woman, he has been spending money rather lavishly for the propagation of the Nazi philosophy among Russians. He alleg edly worked in collaboration with the Japanese Government through General Gre gory M. Semenoff ^3), who acts as adviser as well as secret agent to the Jap anese General Staff. Vonsiatsky's "correspondents" all over the world have been chosen with an eye to military training. Most of his sub-leaders, select ed in various parts of the United States and other countries, are former high- ranking officers of the old imperial army, with vast experience, due to their participation in the World War and the anti-Bolshevik campaign. The entire organization, in all its branches, has been definitely linked with the Hitler ites; their official publications are strongly pro-Nazi. Officially referred to in the United States as the "Pan-Russian National Russo-Fascists", they have set up״ Revolutionary Party", but commonly known as a national committee with Illaryon Suvoroff as chairman. The latter is a one- Page 7. time inspector of artillery np*gelga.T*** HHKa B^i A. A.Boma!oM*qr, in the White K o § $ W 4 t ! * 1 B € ^ Russian armies of Siberia. rBMKt* C z a a a foa ^ K, CttMRETAF*. Eugene Bogos №oporo a C o p a T a H x / fy«aoH +wujM GLORX TO RMRSZA Dear -SoJdier; ^e greet gou and Xun^e on ^our arri^ai to Dairen. Z !gish to in form i/ou o/ a /eu? developments, and express certain possibilities K?it/i mfiio/i ^ou MiJJ undoubtedly agree. Page 80 Upon mg arrival in Dairen, I Mas assured that the commitments made bg ataman Semeno//, in h is telegram sent to gou p rio r to mg arrival to Tokgo, have a so^id basis. I t is evident that ataman Semeno//has a great mang more connections Mith Japanese miiitarg authorities Mho are destined to p^ag an even more important ro^e in the coming developments tnan I anticipated. Con/identiaiJg, it Mas through ataman Jemeno// that (a) the Government 0/ Manchukuo o //iciaiig permitted gou to enter Afan- chu^uo; subsequent^g, the government in Tokgo Mas advised accord- ingJg. (bj The authorities if! Dairen have received orders to issue a visa to gou, and aJso to issue a special document /or traveling to ang part 0/ AfanchuTtuo Mithout a visa. (c) yin o//iciaj 0/ the government 0/ AfanchuTcuo MiJi arrive in Dairen, and o//er gou an uno//iciaJ apoJogg. (dj To a ssist gou, a responsible member 0/ the Japanese Gendarmerg MiiJ accompang gou. (ej The en tire iine 0/ the zairen-Earbin raiJroad Mijj be pJaced under a speciaJ guard during gour transit. (/J Yhe poiice department, as Me^i as the Gendarme Corps, Mi2^ ta&e spec ial measures /or gour sa/etg. (gj jPina^jg, in ^ingsin, gou are to be Mai ted on bg representatives 0/ the general sta// 0/ the RMantung armg /or very special and extreme- 2 g important, absoiuteig secret, negotiations. y4s gou see, ataman -Se/neno// has accomplished a great deaj. For some unTwoion reason, gou did not repJg to his teiegram, sent to gou /rom Dair en on ApriJ i^th. In the interests 0/ our cause, sag that gou did not re ceive his telegram or that gour repjg did not reach its destination. At ang rate, in vieM 0/ considerations enumerated above, gou cannot go to Adrbin directig, /or that MouJd be interpreted as ignoring General Jemeno//. There/ore, I beg gou, as a /riend, to ta^Tt to General 3 emeno// prior to gour departure, and tnen proceed to ^ingsin Mfiere gou MiJJ stag tMo dags. General *?e/Reno// Mi^i i/wnediateig arrive there bg pJane and I Mii2 subseguentig join gou i/ necessarg. You are to devote those tMO dags to a detailed conversation Mith 5 emeno// and, subsequent^g, gou are to MorTi out a secret pJan together Mith the s ta / / 0/ the AMantung armg. Then, on ^ednesdag, gou are to arrive in Harbin. Jn vieM 0/ a^J tne circumstances so cioseJg connected Mith events Mnich Me anticipate, and rea^i-ying the tremendous signi/icance 0/ the coherences to be attended bg gou, Me have decided to g iv e gou a grand reception at the raiJroad station, as MeJJ as at the Russian Ciub on *fednesdag. For these verg reasons, it is desirabie that gou shouJd reach an agree ment Mith ataman 5 emeno// Mherebg he is to Join the Russian Fascist Ghion Mith aiJ his CossacTf organisations and to assume tne leadership 0/ the /u- ture Fascist armg. MhiJe visiting Dairen, Me discussed Mith 3 gmeno// the text 0/ a spec ia l act 0/ incorporating his organisation Mith the Mho^e Russian Fascist partg. T^o copies 0/ this aot are noM in possession 0/ Ataman ^emeno//. It is understood that it is subject to revision, correction, and detailed rewriting, subject to gour approval. Page 9. 2%is ietter - 2- ,т*рпШ1*м״be deJiuered to you ОЖЖЖЧМТ.ЧТО ЖРЖМЖ ОЖИД-ИмОЖ ЖС^МИ НАМИ с тахим к е зяачан!* дмчах тредст ж׳нчг׳by assistant deader жажбяжц. жмтмт, учитияАЖ огрг o/ the Far Fastern Ж^кежждаж^, ми к^мачкам торжвст^чум истрачу чл жохаж section, and a mem ^ Ж ^ичАм^длта2ьчо\^тижь е^глм^ж1я о Атимп Фмпиетчкуя ״ber o/ the Supreme жом.что4н гч ясшйл ж гргАЧиауамум чами Псарг<1%:жп Council, 5 . F. Do2 - nspTic- чо -c tMH мж'.ими кАЗАЧио<и оргАЧИзА^1^-и и aast *и ш o//. In my absence ее$ж рухожсдотжр буд^'же^ фипис тсхсд Арм!#^ ^ в OITHOJTS wo^ ж ДАйР0 )^,ми обсудили с Атамь*.м оео ргъчиЗАц1и им-корпс рж-) ׳rom Narbin, he ё&гр АКТА кс.торьм ож и уагдаж ллем ^ ю/ /unctions as Acting ^ ^ Т ^ .^ ж м м у . Ч.^-.И Β,φ.π. Л-.И.Щ? f.KCT ж джух General Secretary. ЖАр1лЯТАХ йм мож!те получить у Ат^АЧА и у Ь.П. ^мжкожл. Сжмо , 0#0 . р м у ^ 1ятсч.чтр это мрж.жР,прожкт.под*чж*я^уточижн1ж К #e carries out this джтмяж*Щи,А р^тж ^ обраабм т-Ьм ижшнмяИм.котрриж Вн чаюете important toor/t uery Члстожжее оич^мб передаст йкм поможчкк ״^* diiiyentiy, and Z о т с ч н м -o ч е к т о р ь и чжеж ВжрхожнАГ& С«ж^ТА Р.Ф.П recommend that you иржмжт^.ж дни -л-его и ".А.'жтчсжсхаго отсугчтж!ж иа ^^ракха tru st him and depend лужкам *?АмЬчтчт^лж ГемармьчАГС .;екучрАрж. Дуу<^тсж,что#ж^ on him. f beg you ОТЯЪТСТЖеинЖЯ рА*АТА.ИМ жжпгл<<Жмжл,пг эжолит от *J* to burn this Jetter му С ПОЛЖЯМ Ж иСЖСТРрГЧЖИИ Д0Ж-*р1^М ДАЧгЮе ПИЧИЛ- ЙТОЯУ - .яемадджхчо сжжчь ־immediateij/. (Oh derscoriny by ^R5 ) Сджжл Роя с 1ж Raii Russia С ф аш ист: КИ)< ПрЙЖ^ТОН tfith Fascist Greet- ГЖНК?А1ЬНЫ*!ЧКРКТА?Ь ?.ф . П. inys General Secretary o/ Russian Fascist /К . В. Ргдж ааж ек! д Union. Reproduction o/ second paye o/ better written X. V. Rodgaeusky by Rod Another "Serpent of Sedition"? As far as Rossiya is concerned, neither its circulation nor such meagre re venues as it might derive from advertising seems sufficient to cover its over head. This White Russian newspaper maintains offices and plant on the sixth floor at 480 Canal Street, New York City. In a long open room, with no parti tions whatsoever, business is conducted by Ribakoff, assisted by Ivan Schwachka, Page 10. who lives at 1711 Townsend Avenue. Ribakoff is also assisted by his wife and son and an Italian (i) pressman. In his editorial policy, Ribakoff fav ors Hitler and all he stands for. As a matter of good business, he keeps in close touch not only with White Russians all over the world, but also with totalitarian agitators of all shadings, especially with certain "nationalist" cells in New York and Detroit* Rossiga's plant is worth approximately $10,000; it employs five people, and supposedly turns out a daily edition of 12,000 copies. The White Rus sian newspaper also runs a book store, with most of its stock in trade con sisting of "Made-in-Berlin" hate literature of the "Satan's Realm" type, currently brought into the United States under the guidance of World Ser vice. Among the books Rossiga pushes through advertising, etc., are the writings of Boris Brasol, and other anti-Democratic shocktroopers. One of Rossiga's ideological advisers is A. Lerche of 535 West 135th Street, New York City, who is the secretary of the Russian National League of America, the members and hangers-on of which are commonly known as White Russians. Lerche and some of his followers were steady attendants at meet ings of the Christian Front and the American Nationalist Party ^). At a recent rally of Allen Zoll's American Patriots 17), Lerche peddled tickets for a concert and ball arranged to bolster Rossiga's exchequer. Naturally, Rossiga carried announcements of this affair, just as it also printed adver tisements of rallies of the American Nationalist Party and similar subversiv- ist cells. Altogether, Rossiga sets the pace and leads the way for Nazified White Russians in the United States. Under Bundits' smokescreened leadership, they are to serve as shock troops along the entire totalitarian propaganda front from coast to coast (as stated in News Letter of October 25rd), sabo taging Democracy as they advance. The McCormack Act, calling for registration of agents of foreign prin cipals, was enacted to cover just such cases. ***** * * * * For additional in/orrnation on names and /acts, see 7VR3 back issues as /o 22ows; ';-^ 220; ^52; ^ -^ 200; ^=8 4 ; ^6 5 ; ^)-?5 9 ; 4^-^8 4 ; ^5 3 ; Sj-^222; ^75; ^-^222; ^222; ?75; ^-?22<2; ^ - ? 2 0 6 ; ^ ?gg,. 9 ^ j o O ; ? 6 5 ; ?3 3 ; "> ;-?222; "^-?22<2; ?222; 2/ 2 5 / 39; ^ ; - ^ 222; ? 222; # 222; l& ;-3/ 2 3 /3 9 ; 3/ 2 9 / 3 9 ; !? ;- ? 222. ******************* a&UTE OF THE WRSK; №e are a nation o/ mang nationaJities, mang races, mang re2igions — bound together bg a singJe unitg, the unitg o/ /reedom and equaJitg. Whoever seeks to set one nationaJitg against another, seeks to degrade a22 nationalities. Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to ens2a^e a22 races. Mhoe^er seeks to set one religion against another, seeks to destrog a22 reJigion. — FfankJin D. Roose^eJt, Wouember 2, 2940. **********