PROPAGANDA IN U.S.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 50, 27 August 1940, Page 8

PROPAGANDA IN U.S.

TOTALITARIAN POWERS

"POSITIVE EVIDENCE" CLAIM

DISRUPTIVE FORCES

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) (Received August 27, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 26. The chairman of the committee which has been investigating subver- i sive activities, Mr. Martin Dies, j claims that he has positive evidence | that Italy, Germany, and Russia are flooding the United States with propaganda designed to disrupt the national defence and prevent American aid going to Britain. He declared that his committee has seized records in Texas, on the west coast, and in Kansas City proving that Nazis and Fascists, working through people of German and Italian descent, are disseminating propaganda designed to divide the United States religiously and racially and aid efforts to establish spies and saboteurs in key defence industries. The committee's files, he said, contained the names and histories of 100,000 persons who had been prominent in Communist, Nazi, or Fascist activities since the World War. Germany had mailed hundreds of thousands of pieces of literature throughout the United States under a free mailing agreement. The committee had also obtained the names of 1250 German sympathisers on the West Coast, the majority of whom were employed in aircraft and other key defence industries.