UNDERGROUND ARMIES
IN
AMERICA
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Early in January, Allen received from "Mrs. Fry and C. Chap
four hundred and fifty dollars for a trip to Washington,
man"
D. C.
Fry and C.
"Mrs.
Chapman" live in
Santa Monica, but
use Glendale, Calif, for a post office address. This
money was
spent between January 13 and February 10, 1938, according to
the expense account Allen turned in to the Fry-Chapman
combination.
Three days after Allen got the money (January 16, 1938), he
received from Schwinn a letter of introduction to Fritz Kuhn,
addressed
New
Street,
lowing
is
My Bund
The
the
to
York
Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, 178 E. 85th
City. The letter was written in German. Fol
the translation:
Leader:
is my old friend and comrade-in-arms, Henry
coming East on an important matter.
Mr. Allen knows the situation in Los Angeles and California very well and
can give you important information. We can give Allen absolute confidence.
Hail and Victory,
HERMANN SCHWINN.
Allen,
bearer of this letter
who
The
is
"important matter"
which he wanted
this country,
on which Allen was going East and
to discuss
with the national Nazi leader in
was to contact the Italian Embassy, the Hungarian
Legation, James True of the James True Associates (distributors
of &qu