The Archive · 1939

Retired U.S. Army Officer to Testify Before Dies Committee

Alleged Assistance to Anti-Semitic Campaign in America; Fiery Speeches Brought Official Rebuke clusive evidence that certain groups in the United States were using racial and religious prejudice "in the hope of inflaming the people to the point where they will succumb to a military dictatorship."

The retired Army officer recently made speeches in which he often attacked Communists and Jews in the Mr, Dies announced that it was his intention to seek an additional received U.S.$100,000 from Congress.

The victims were shot down while in bed, their assailants calmly firing on them through the windows of houses across the street.

'A quick inquiry on the spot established that shortly before the shooting occurred, some 20 Hebrew-speaking, foreign-clothed men arrived in taxis.

One hour after the incident in the cinema, two Jews were wounded by revolver bullets when returning to their homes in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem.

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