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...pretty straight thinking about the war and about international politics; a lot straighter thinking, certainly, than Paramount's director, Sam Wood, who diluted "For Whom the Bell Tolls"; and straighter thinking, too, than the MPA (Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals--also called the Motion Picture Bund, the Brain Storm Bund, and others unprintable) which attacked Warners' "Mission to Moscow" as "Red" and "fourth term" propaganda...
...From Edward James Smythe, Klan and Bund go-between, he learned Smythe's candidates for the "nationalist cabinet" of tomorrow: Secretary of the Treasury, Father Coughlin; Secretary of the Navy, Jacob Thorkelson; Secretary of State, Senator Burton K. Wheeler; Secretary of Public Health & Morals, Representative Clare Hoffman...
...what he had learned in Germany haunted him. When Hitler came into power, Ausborn sold his farm, went to Winnipeg and devoted all his time to organizing an anti-Nazi movement among Canadians of German descent. For a while he was successful. Then the German Consulate organized a Bund in Winnipeg and financed a violent Nazi newspaper. Ausborn was beaten up by Bundist thugs. Once he made an effigial tombstone for Hitler, which was to be carried in a May Day parade. Police made him take the name off, because it was considered an insult to the head...
...came back from fighting as a volunteer for Loyalist Spain; he was called a Red and a troublemaker. Most of his family turned against him. Embittered and socially ostracized they asked: Why did he not mind his own business when he came to Canada? Others got along with the Bund and prospered. Why did he love democracy so much? It wouldn't even give him a job. First one daughter left home, then another. Finally in December 1940 Ausborn came home one night and found a note from his wife that she had left...
...organized in 1936 as the Anti-Communist Center by Nazi Agent Oscar Hellmuth Schreiter, and from the outset trained semi-militarized shock troops under Spanish Falangists; >Maintained direct contact with the Fichte Bund in Hamburg until the outbreak...