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a ee ee eS) a aed iB) ' laws ; wl | DL nl | t On April 2, 19. >: arrested by officers 13 of the Staite of California, ana cherged with being a memhet and } Jeader of a subversive organization; narely, the Friends of Frogress, a) which failed to register «ith the Secretary, of the otate of 14 California. 19 advised that he was prosecuting attorneys re BE aaa of and 9 thers "of “the qov arning board of the 21 "Friends cf Progress" 7 advised tha REP: ons ec tics with 22 Germany was show by doctrentary evidence o S activities in varicus 23, | Seman organizations. Exhtbit L-33 ef these documents was a letter 24 p/S) tothe “Evening Mews, Ios Auweles, Crlifornia dated Augast #, 1747, 25 in which wrote that Hitler was considered by sume Amerioans Y as a mes! tyrannical dictatore He said that freedom of speech, 2? ef press and conactence had not bsen talen from German citizens, and 28 that this was merely propaganda by some Americans. Yr also stated 29 there was no filthy or ¢ruel concentration camps in Germany,ar? that a such stories were spread by paid propagandists and that no writer or 31 . scientist of nota had Seen expelleds As reference was made to ona 320° Aloert Einstein, QR reminded his readers that leading American a7, organizations cbjected to his entry into this country because of nis 34 Communist leanings . Los Angeles report dated L1-4-43 Po, Wacs ASe$ De uralization Proresdingas %" pt sopra ra, aT wr, _. . Te pele we SO stom fer er a he ee ee ke pe