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100 E. 42nd St., New York MUrray Hill $-0688-9 Board Editor Albert E. Kaho Editorial Consultants Prof. F. L. Schuman Johannes Stee! Leland Stowe Hendrik van Loon ‘Wythe Williams | + NEWS-KEY " — Investigation < —_onsiatsky ...... 1 Smith Grows Buldet ...e0e—r--—- 20 Fifth Column Candidate for Senate ... “8 3-4 Pro-Axis Propaganda in Detroit NOTE: The Howr is a confidential bulletin, published each week by The Hour Publishing Co, Inc. The price of subscription is $5.00 per annum, $3.00 for six months. gia Number 134 - May 16, 1942 THE CASE OF "COUNT" ANAST ONSIATSKY <—_-oOoOooOoO—— Disclosures of international significance are likely to come out of the Federal Grand Jury probe into the activities of Anastase A. Vonsi- etsky, which is now taking place in Hertford, Connecticut, under the gui- dance of Thomas J. Dodd, special assistant to the Attorney General. For years Anastase Vonsiatsky, head of the Russian National Fascist Revolutionary Party and until recently editor of The Fascist, has been weaving a net of international intrigue from his estate near the lit- tle town of Thompson, Connecticut. Himself an agent of the German and Japanese High Commands and a ringleader of the fascist thite Russian fifth column in America, Vonsiatsky has been conspiring not only to overthrow the Government of the Soviet Union but also to bring about a fascist coup in the United Stetes. Working closely with key representatives of Germany and Japan, he has helped smuggle spies, saboteurs, and terrorists into Tut sia, whose duties have included assassineting Soviet leaderse During the last ten years, he has frequently visited Berlin, Rome and Tokyoe He ran arms to Franco+Spain to aid the Axis-inspired uprising in thet country. he aided in the organization of a fascist Thite Russian Army on Japanese soi] which is now awaiting orders from Tokyo to launch an attack against the Soviet Union. On his Connecticut estate, he maintained en elaborate arse: - al of rifles, machine guns, tear gas equipment, etc; and he trained score: of uniformed swastika~wearing young men in preparation for the day when Fascism would come to America. For carrying on his multifarious plottings, the former Czarist fficer had ut his disposal the immense fortune of his wife, nee Marion \eean, who inherited a one-seventh share of the $40,000,000 Ream estate in Chicago. The American heiress and the penniless Russian emigré met in Paris in 1921, and were married shortly afterwards. At the time he was twenty-three and she was forty-five. Vonsiatsky Exposed in The Hour in 1939 On July 30, 1939, The Hour carried an article, entitled "Fritz Kuhn's Week-End Host Participated in Murders," which exposed Vonsiatsky's fifth column activities in the United States. Our report also brought to light a confession he had written many years before, describing a series of torture-kurdors in which he had participated. Vie urged in this article and in subsequent reports, that the U. Se authorities conduct a thorough investigation of Vonsiatskys When the Federal Grand Jury hearings started this week in Hart- ford, one of the first witnesses to be summoned was The Hour reporter who assisted in preparing pleat on Vonsiatsky, — —+\ - ‘fl ‘ _* + * © The contents of ie Hour are not copyrighted and may be freely reprinted