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...Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell of New York, Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary (chairman of the Council)-and a couple of sure-enough fellow travelers, Methodist Rev. Dr. Harry Frederick Ward and Episcopalian Rev. William Benjamin ("Bill") Spofford. One William Ball, leader of Cleveland's Young Americanist League, fee-fi-fo-fummed for the G-Men to investigate this "Red Christian Front." An officious "Director of Americanism" of the American Legion announced: "What we want to do is to make sure that the good American churchmen and other citizens attending these meetings will be on guard...
...There followed a brief spat over the U. S. policy of collecting Latin-American debts. Banker Albert Strauss, of Manhattan, opposed Dr. Leo S. Rowe, Pan-Americanist, cited the Monroe Doctrine as the business man's friend...
...Rowe, Pan-Americanist, suggested the League as a counterbalance, if not a substitute, for the Doctrine of James Monroe...