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...witness was John C. Metcalfe, a newspaperman who joined Nazi Fritz Kuhn's German-American Bund in order to spill its secrets in Chicago's tabloid Times. Put on the Dies Committee payroll as an investigator, he testified before it two months ago that the Bund, on the surface a minuscule singing, beer-bibbing and marching society, was in reality a hateful Nazi network with some 500,000 U.S. sympathizers. Last week Chairman Dies made a timely move by recalling Witness Metcalfe to repeat and amplify his previous testimony, having him dress in his Bund uniform for photographers...
...side of the French Paul Doumer Hospital, just across the narrow canal from the island of Shameen, Canton's foreign concession. Bombers power-dived over the settlement, built on a reclaimed sandbar, and released their loads directly above in order to plump them into the populous Chinese West Bund. Settlement police stood guard to beat back any Chinese who might plunge across the narrow canal and try to clamber up Shameen's steep concrete sides to safety...
...rckel wants an "Aryanization" of Vienna just as much as his buoyant Storm Troopers, the Nazi organ, believed to reflect his views, declared there will be no pogroms," reminded everyone that "Germany is a land of justice." In Manhattan arrived Führer Fritz Kuhn of the German-American Bund after a trip to Germany and Austria. Met by two gray-coated, black-trousered Bund officers, Fuhrer Kuhn brought back a message from German Jews to American Jews. "I talked with lots and lots of Jews in Germany," Kuhn said, "and they all told me this: 'Tell the Jews...
Germans are by nature joiners. How much the Bund is actually an undercover wing of Naziism and how much the innocent modern equivalent of an old-fashioned Turnverein is highly debatable, even among Bund members. Major operations of the Bund are week-end outings, where members in grey uniforms with Swastika brassards are drilled in German military tactics, sing German songs, listen to speeches in favor of Adolf Hitler. Dues of $9 a year partly go to buy camping sites, of which the Bund has 27 in as many cities. They also pay the salaries of Führer Kuhn...
Major stated aims of the Bund are: 1) to fight the Jewish boycott on German goods, and 2) to stand as the nucleus of a U. S. army to defend the country against Communism. To achieve the first, Bund members are urged to patronize only stores run by Aryans who give members stamps entitling them to a discount relative to the amount they purchase. To achieve the second, Bundsmen have thus far done no more than make impassioned homesick speeches, parade with wooden guns. Sleek Mr. Kuhn, who looks and talks like an embryo Göring, last week failed...