AXIS BROADCASTERS
EIGHT AMERICANS INDICTED WASHINGTON, July 24. Eight Americans, including . two women, who have broadcast regularly from Germany and Italy on ,behalf of the Axis war effort, have been indicted for treason. — The Attorney-General, Mrr F. B. Biddle, said they- will be brought to trial when they are caught. Six are native Americans and two. are naturalised Americans of German birth. The indictments are similar. Each alleges that the defendant aided enemies of the United States by repeated broadcasts designed to persuade American citizens to decline to support the United States in the conduct of the war. The indictments involve a charge which carries the death penalty. The defendants are Ezra Pound, aged 57; Robert Best, 47; Frederick Kaltenbach, 48; Douglas Chandler, 54; Edward Delaney, 57; Constance Drexel, 48; Jane Anderson, 50; and Max Koischwitz, 41. Five of them were formerly Press correspondents. Kaltenbach, a former United States army officer, is described as the American counterpart of Lord HawHaw. Jane Anderson was saved from death by the State Department's intercession after she had, been arrested as a spy by Spanish'loyalists.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1943, Page 5
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181AXIS BROADCASTERS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1943, Page 5
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