New York, Aug. 27.
The Chairman of the House Committee for the Investigation of Un-American Activities, Mr. Martin Dies, announced yesterday that his Congressional committee had "positive evidence" that the German, Italian and Russian Governments are flooding the United States with propaganda designed to distrust national defence and prevent American aid to Britain.
The Committee, Mr. Dies said, seized records and secured testimony in the western part of the United States proving that the Nazi and Fascist Governments are working ter to President Roosevelt asking the Administration to support a bill he intends to present Congress outlawing all agents and organizations controlled by foreign governments.
Mr. Dies said he had discovered that in San Francisco merchants were financing "after work" schools in which Italian children were -taught from text books published in Italy and the need for such a government in the United States," Mr. Dies said.
Mr. Dies said the evidence he had accumulated during his trip in the west includes letters from various Italian consuls to Italian-Americans of Italian extraction. paganda designed to divide the coun-y|try by racial and religious prejudice. He said the Totalitarian powers are also making efforts to establish a series of saboteurs in key defence "By implication," Mr. Dies stated, the letters stated that "if they are not friendly to Italy their relatives in Italy will suffer."
The Congressmen said, "Americans of Italian and German descent must receive protection from this form of blackmail."—United Press. pected to be called up by. January 1, after passage of the Conscription Bill now being debated by the Senate, according to an authoritative source aere.
Tt was reported that the sum was handed over to the War Department to start the immediate construction of water systems, drainage, hospitals and barracks, despite the fact that Congress has not yet approved the Conscription Bill.
Meanwhile, by executive order, the President consolidated power marketing facilities of the Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams in the northwest in order to centralize the disposal of electric energy in a national defence emergency.
At the same time, answering Senatorial criticism on the progress of the -armament programme, the President's National Defence Commission announced that so far, 6,747 army and navy planes have been ordered.
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