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Letter to Director Rez GERALD L. K. SMITH August 4, 1942 INTERNAL SECURITY : SEDITION from some "good Americans" a radio. On Jd 22 SMITH was instructed to call at the home of Recorders Court, Detroit, Michigan. SMITH discussed w the possibilities of his winning the election for the United States and when SMITH said he thought he had a good chance of winning, interrupted and said that he didn't care whether SMITH w t was just that he want to give. . ., and at that point was interrupted. Wh resumed later on, he explained he c od a meeting of several o e more important judges in Michigan, including a Su rt Judge whom he did not name and several others at the hone The reason for this meeting was that none of these see SMITH'S opponent Judge HOMER YERGUSON "get to first asked SMITH what sort of help he wanted from these Judges answered that he would want $3000 to cover the next ten weeks of sting (SMITH is paying $250 per week for some Sunday broadcasts). said it would be no trouble at all to get this sum of money for . the end of the conversation SMITH said to "I am the only one still going. Everyone else is under the bed but me. If I didn't just stick and fight . . ., it's going to take just that kind of fight eat these (profane) that are putting everybody out of business." concluded the conversation by telling SMITH that anything he did ‘or TH was not to be obtained in one lump but was to be obtained from fifteen or twenty sources. has attempted to contact AT t has not been successful. has refrained from c e recent arrests of and others Ou On July 28, 1942, MR. SMITH asked to speak to Special Agent in Charge owas out, and rred to - Special Agent SMITH advised ‘t two reporters for and TIME magazines were attempting to interview him and he wanted to report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation inaivance of the interview because he thought that this was part of the conspiracy’ of his enemies to accuse him of being a Fascist. SMITH also reported . that he has heard that @ woman has been asking for him at Station wWdR,} stating that she knows MR. SMITH would get her son deferred. SMITH stated for the record that he refers all such requests to the War Department;: stated that this was part of the smear campaign against him which is waged by Communists and other enemies of his. SUITH advised Agent CD that the Communists have already started their campaign against DAVIS, Head of the Office of War Information. SMITH concluded by saying y? rnd uv