FIGHTING THE “REDS”
NAZI LEADER'S CLAIM BUND ACTIVE IN U.S. KUHN’S TRUCULENCE (Klee. Ti,i. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Oct. 20, 2.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. Fritz Kuhn, leader of the GermanAmerican Bund, resuming his testimany before the Dies Committee, which is investigating activities against the United States, said the bund was still fighting Communists in the United States although it wholly approves of the Russian-German pact.
Kuhn insisted that there is no significance in the fact that the majority of the bund's 71 units are located in the area occupied by 90 per cent of the United States’ munitions industry.
Kuhn, with his usual truculence, quarrelled with the committee members, spectators and pressmen and expressed intense annoyance at being compelled to come to Washington to testify.when he needed time to prepare his defence to embezzlement charges.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20074, 21 October 1939, Page 7
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