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Mane ~15 - “alter Winchell in his broaccast on September 13 to pare 212 0 i 1o42, reoverred partio“lerl soto pec re FodAc tons. It mentions on page 215 #.at jee rushec to Viashington on December ll, iv4l, to see Baron UlriekivonPuienauth anc a week later was arrested by tne Fi and subsequently sentenced to serve elcht months to two years in ‘3 in tae tac penitentiary. The case of how Frank B. 2urch of Axron, Chio, a respected business man, was hoodwinked into serving "the Nazi psycholozical saboteurs" in Aserica is mentioned. The case of 3. Allison Fhelps, Hollyood broadcaster, and nis tie-uo with Senator Kovert Rice Reynolds is discussed, which resulted in his tight to nave tre Senate investigate the "Producers oi Atrocity Films," (Anti-Nazi iilms) in Hollywood. CHAPTEX XT. tAmnerica at War" On December 12, 1941, five days after Pearl Harbor, the America First Comal officially disbanded. ' On December 17, 1941, ten days alter rearl Harbor, a secret meeting was hel in a luxurious New York City aparticent at 35 Besxuan Place. This was the hone of Eawin SibleyPreaster, Jr., wealthy iall Street oroxer ana former Executive Director o tne hew Yorn Chapter of the Auwerica First Comittee. Webster's guests included Charl mba and a nuaber of key Au.erica First leaders in New York. A few weeks after the ueeting in Wepster's apartnent, Horace J. Haase set u an organization called Americans for Peace. Its menvership was composed larcely of former America Firsters. Tue new organization circulated a .ropevanca oulletin, WRerica's Hope," whien asserted that the claims of tie Axis” were just and trigt the United States had -rovoxea Japan into the war. Four days after America's entry iato the war, two huncred people sela a meeting in the Ecbassy Aacitorium in Los Angeles ana voted to "inpeacn™ a iax-faced of the Precident o: the United States. Elis 0. Jones, chiei of the ational Copperneads, a fiftn column orvanization which had worked closely with the Anerica i. Committee on the Vest Coast, told tne Los Angeles audience, "Tne Japanese have a riz to Hawaiil. . . I would.rutier be in this war on the side of Germany than on the sia of tne British!" Rooert™sgole, wo had been dishonoradly Giscnargea from the U. 5. i@ Sa.i¢ platfors, "Japan has done a good job in the raci I believe this war is soins to destroy America 1" The autiors =o on to relate various ;ropaganda orvans such as "Tne Jalilea by Felley; "Publicity," by &. J. Garner; and "Social Justice," by Father Gougniin. autnors tien state that these openly seditious propavanca organs were not the only publications that provec userul to the Axis ,sycnolo_ical saboteurs in tueir aback Auerican morale.