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62-6782 JOSEPH McWILLIAMS spoke and accused England of being the greatest war-mongering country in the world and trying to involve e United States in the present war because sle is standing on her last leg. He said England went so far as to sink her orm ship, the At ia, which was bringing American citizens to this country it would arouse the American people to speak of nothing but war. le said he thought the bomb whica explodes at the Worli's Fair hai been planted by the Britic: in crder to gain the sympathy of the American people. He stated itat certain people call FORD and LINDBERGH Fifth Columnists, and 11 if these great men were Fifth Columnists he was proud to be i: their class. He said tha when he was taken to court for his cpeeches it cost him one thousand dollers in trials but that he got at lest ten thou- sand dollars' worth of publicity from them. Hc predicted that when he was elected to Congress he would blow the lid off the adminis- NR fration in Washington. . A meeting of the American Destiny Party was held on July 6, 1940, on the street at 73rd Street east of First Avenue. About 600 persons were’ present. Doxatacasavovs was chairman. speckers platform was on a covered Wagon. JAMES DOWNEY spoke and stated that President ROOSEVELT was @ feilure and should step aside and allow someone else to have a chance of solving our problems. He scié the British are traitors because they allowed Poland, Czechoslovakia, and France to fall. He claimed the Internationalists (Jews) were trying to involve us jf the war and would do so unless we support men such as RUSH HOLT, enator WHEELER, and McWILLIAMS. DONALD SHEA, Washington, D. C., spoke end blamed the sufferings of the Americans on the manipulations of the government igi the value of gold. He claimed that a certain element was trying o take away the right of free speech to real Americans. He praised Senetor WHEELER, RUSH HOL§, Congressman THORKELSON, and McWILLIAMS. JAMES STEWART spoke and stated that an indication of the intolerance used against persons who fight for Christian ideals was thet he was arrested and brought to pelice headquarters at 12 o'clock at night and questioned regarding the bombing of the World's Fair and claimed that he had never been arrested in his life and had fought and been wounded defending this country. -ll-