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the newspaper. But instead of easing his editor out or giving
other job, he made him his confidential secretary.
him some
When Kuhn
work for Ford, the national headquarters
of the Nazi propaganda machine was moved to Detroit, and the
went
to
anti-democratic activities increased in intensity. Employing Nazi
anti-semitism as the bait to attract dissatisfied and bewildered
new organization made its appear
Federation, headed by Ford s private
Headquarters were established in the McCormick
elements in the population, a
ance:
The Anglo-Saxon
secretary.
Building in Chicago,
Room
834, at 332 S.
Michigan Ave. and in
Fox Building in Detroit.
In July, 1936, Cameron, obviously because Ford was
the
violently
anti-Roosevelt, stepped out as head of the organization and
became its Director of Publications. When Winrod was raising
money from American industrialists to support the Capitol
News and Feature Service, Cameron was among the contributors.
The Anglo-Saxon Federation began to distribute the "Proto
again. I bought a copy in the Detroit offices of the organi
zation, stamped with the name of the organization. The intro
duction quotes Ford as approving of them. It states:
cols"
New York World;
put the case for Nilus* tersely and convincingly thus:
"The
only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in
with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the
Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in the
February
17, 1921,
world situation up to
this time.
They
fit it now."
When
Ford was on the witness stand in a libel suit some
fifteen years ago and admitted his ignorance of matters with
which even grammar school children are familiar, the country
laughed. His ignorance, however, is his own affair, but when he
takes no step to curb his personal representative from working
with secret foreign agents to undermine a friendly government,
* The man who
forged the
confes