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began to harangue his audiences about the
and the
"menace
of the Jews
Catholics-."
Then one day, the Reverend Gerald B. Winrod suddenly
found himself possessed of enough money to go to Germany.
Account cards for the Reverend Gerald B. Winrod in a Wichita department
store, showing his straitened financial circumstances during the early thirties.
When
new
he came back in February, 1935, he had new
clothes
and a
fat
check book.
The
suit cases,
records in the Wichita
stores where he had been getting credit for clothes
and furniture show that after his return from Germany he paid
all his debts in lump sums by check. Then he became a pub
department
lisher.
In his newspaper, The Revealer, he published a report on his
trip to Europe, but did not mention where he got the money
for the jaunt. The report (February 15, 1935) told of his dis
covery that the German people loved Hitler and that only "Jew
ish influence in high circles of certain governments is making it