New York, Apr. 6.
Public opinion in the Union States is evincing keen interest in the trial, which opened yesterday, of seven members of the "Christian Front," charged with plotting against the security of the state and stealing arms and munitions from Government arsenals.
Interest is centered on the mysterious personality of William Geral Bishop, one of the accused, who is said to have formerly been a colleague of Colonel Lawrence of Arabia, secretary of General Francisco Franco, Il Duce's interpreter and a spy in Belgium and Great Britain, from which two countries he was expelled.
The plans of Bishop and his lieutenant, John Cassidy, were to stage riots, and create an atmosphere of trouble and confusion under the cloak of anti-Communism.
The trial promises to be a most sensational one as the "Christian Front" a Catholic organization of anti-Semitic and anti-Communistic tendencies, is itself implicated more or less directly in the plot.—Havas.
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