AMERICAN SENSATION
PROMINENT MEN ARRESTED ALLEGED JAPANESE AGENTS WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. A sensation has been caused by the arrest of three prominent Americans on charges of acting as Japanese agents. Mr J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, disclosed that Walker Grey Matheson, former news analyst in the offices of the Co-ordinator of Interamerican Affairs, Joseph Hilton Smyth, publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine the Living Age, and Irvine Harvey Williams had been arrested.
Mr Hoover said Smyth and Matheson bought the Living Age in 1938 with 15,000 dollars received from the Japanese Consul on the understanding that one pro-Japanese article would be published in each issue. They received a monthly subsidy of 25,000 dollars from the Japanese Consulate until August, 1941. Smyth was public relations counsel to the Japanese Consulate until after the Pearl Harbour attack, and conducted an investigation into the activities of Communists for the Japanese Consul.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25015, 8 September 1942, Page 3
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