MAYOR DERISIVE.
America "Not Endangered By
18 Such Guys."
GOVERNOR ORDERS INQUIRY.
(Received 2.30 p.m.)
NEW YORK, January 15.
Governor Lehman has ordered an investigation into the connection of the National Guard personnel with the "Christian Front."
The Mayor of New York, Mr. La Guardia, laughed and said the United States was "not endangered by 18 sucii guys."
In a cable published yesterday it was reported that the Chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr. J. Edgai Hoover, liad announced "that 18 members of the "Christian Front" had been arrested 011 charges of conspiracy to create a overthrow the Government and establish a dictatorship.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1940, Page 8
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