SEDITION CHARGE
WEST INDIAN NEGROES fßecd. 9.30 p.m.) New York, Jan. 1. Leonard Jordan and three other West Indian negroes belonging to the Ethiopian Pacific Movement were convicted of sedition in the Federal Court. Each is liable to 20 years’ imprisonment and a 10,000-dollars fine. The Judge quoted Leonard Jordan, leader of the movement, as advocating that American negroes should league themselves with Japan in order to achieve racial equality, and also as declaring that Hitler was the greatest man who had ever lived, that England was on the rocks and the United States would soon fall.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 2, 4 January 1943, Page 6
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97SEDITION CHARGE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 2, 4 January 1943, Page 6
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