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Saturday,
am
I
told.
The
and
satisfactory
counselor.
.
.
which you gave
letter
myself, not daring to entrust
Italian Embassy I found the
it
me
I
mailed to Budapest
Embassy. At the
to the present staff at the
Ambassador away, but I had a very delightful
conference with Signor G. Cosmelli, who is the Italian
.
Shortly after the conference at the Italian Embassy, True and
Allen conferred. Subsequently, True wrote to Allen and added
a postscript in long hand: "But be very careful about controlling
the information and destroy this letter."
Allen did not destroy it immediately.
ruary 23, 1938, reads in part:
The
letter,
dated Feb
The bunch of money promised off and on for three years may come
through within the next week or two. We have had so many disappointments
that I hardly dare hope but there seems a fair chance of results. If it comes
through we will have you back here in a hurry. You, George, and I will get
and prepare for real action.
your friends want some pea shooters,
together
If
quantity and at the right price.
Let me know as soon as you can.
To
They
I
have connections now for any
are United States standard surplus.
must be added the peculiar and unexplained
Congressional Committee appointed to
subversive activities." The Committee employed a
"investigate
Nazi propagandist as one of its chief investigators and refused
to question three suspected Nazi spies working in the Brooklyn
Navy Yard. Congressman Martin Dies of Texas, chairman of
the Committee, gave two of the National Republic s high-pres
sure men letters of introduction when they started out on a
these events
actions
of
the
Dies
milking party in the name of patriotism. He received the
cooperation of Harry A. Jung, and he refused to examine the
files of James A. True when the above letter was brought to
little
Committee s attention.
But these actions merit more detailed consideration.
his