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...many Jews head House committees. Fortnight ago the Thorkelson decline thumped bottom when he packed the Record with an eleven-column letter supposedly written by Colonel Edward M. House. Woodrow Wilson's brain trust, to David Lloyd George, on June 10, 1919. The letter, instantly spotted as a fake by scholars, proposed a fantastically detailed program for making the U. S. once again a British colony. The letter had been traced in 1920 by Congressional investigators to one Dr. William J. Maloney...
...Wrote Editor Thomas Wardell Braden Jr.: "In the last great war men of our age died:1) for democracy, 2) to crush German Imperialism. These words don't always mean what they say. We need to remember that there are ideals of truth and realism stronger than the fake ideals which are battering at us from Europe...
...false U. S. passport. Asked to tell what name he had traveled under, Comrade Browder declined to answer on the ground that doing so might tend to incriminate him. Well might he be cautious. Day before, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had warned that all travelers on fake passports would be prosecuted if apprehended (possible penalty: $2,000 fine and five years in jail...
Nazi Consul General at San Francisco, received a fake telegram demanding his resignation from swank Olympic Club. The fast-talking Consul General-trusted confidant of Adolf Hitler and good friend of Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe, who was publicly called a "dirty spy" in London's Ritz (TIME, Sept. 11)-resigned. Day later he was back in, but club members were reported getting up a true ouster bill this time...
Most columnists were either violently partisan like Dorothy Thompson or violently non-partisan like Hugh Johnson and Boake Carter. In the New York World-Telegram Harry Elmer Barnes called down a plague on both Europe's houses: "The lip service paid to democracy is only a fake frosting to obscure the underlying imperialism. . . . The current conflict ... is in reality a clash of rival imperialisms...