Word: camelias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...connected with such activities. That was the last anybody heard from Dies on that score. In a radio speech, September 1939, he said he had evidence the Bund and native fascist groups were working in close co-operation. George Deatherage, former head of the fascist Knights of the White Camelia, was implicated. But nothing more was done by Dies about this domestic threat. It took the newspaper PM to expose Deatherage, who had planned a fascist coup, as a potential spy who had risen to be an executive engineer in one of our most important naval construction projects. The Navy...