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Pe ee Bd Mere vatne te ye hd oe aed + Ua es * wis mt § woe (4e a L: lone dg. Lager Hoover wirector in Chief f A Federal Bureau otf Investigation > ue LM vines F by? effort! to reyiew matters which were dead many ; ar Washington, D, C. Dear Mr. Hoover: st o our Bpec ents, QD and called to see me about possible or probable activities which might be construe - as interfering with our war effort. Both of these men were very polite and a credit to your department. par They referred to a purported effort to create a political some five years back, with which my name was connected, but whic so far as I know, was never continued beyond a few weeks. During 1931 and 1932 I was nominated,as Vice Presidential candidate at two national conventions of theLiberty Party, whic had for its principal plank--Constituional Co Loney, The Liberty Farty existed only through the 1932 election. I traveled n&tion wide and spoke in every important city on the main issue of the party and my views were published nationally in every typ of journal, daily, weekly and monthly. In 1941 I shared the speaking platform with Senators and Congressmen who tried to keep us out of the Luropean conflict. a Dubuque, Jowa, in company with Senator wheeler anc urchbishop .Leckman, I spoke to 6,000 people at Loras College Stadium. The ‘* radio appeal by these two notables that people. should come to "Washington to present their views directly to their elected offi «x ials, led to their request that I direct that job. This I did, «4 7 those who came to nashington did so peaceably, working as indivi ~ uals or in pairs of two, but never en masse. This was done on be ‘ half of 80% of the american people as shown by reliable polls. after December 7, 198% 1941, I made no speecha&s on the we * subject, except to encourage assistance to our Government. In 7“ april, 1942, I wrote President Roosevelt my offer to assist him ~, in any capacity he desired, and “he thanked me for it by letter. in 1941 I gave William PowerNiialoney, agssitant attorney * General, two valuable documents in assistance of the Veirick cas hi and he begged me later to let him keep them a while lomger and } ae still has them. I also offered Naloney services to help unco\ { any possible Japanes conspiricies on this coast, having been awe -9 and wrote for the He: b°9 ed unawa; to that menace since I went east in,19 papers an article then rejected peofus 7 e growing menace of, ,JADS «pers. : .™ - areas the ma bterd Yous” apes tap Hae aiseu: “~ > with me took place several years prior to rearl Harkor,and inso- ‘9 ' auch as they said they were not interested in anything ‘which ba; have takgp place in my activities prior to that date, I amata Tose ‘tq fin any reason for their having taken v duable office 45) 8 ting our overburdened Government ada 1 money, in : for to lei Rar bor. There are many new attempts at present to creste politic. 1; parties for the 1944 campaign. Can it possibly be attempt to |? dntimidate probable leaders into inactivity along this line? Ev --- . @ former Cabinet memher in Kansas has sent out a third-party ca . ™ 5 ere reper ee ek ~ coo eee . ‘