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remember? You know, the lady who lives on North Crescent
Driveshall I mention her name?"
Schwinn s face turned an apoplectic red and he became quiet.
"On
Monday, February
10,
1936,"
I
continued.
"Reinhold
Kusche, leader of the O. D. unit in your organization and a
patriotic
naturalized
American
citizen,
was
on board the
steamer Elbe docked in Los Angeles harbor. He telephoned to
one of your Nazi agents, Albert Voigt, that the Captain was sail
ing at five o clock for Antwerp and was furious because the
agents reports had not yet been delivered to him. Kusche told
Voigt to bring the reports in a hurry which Voigt promptly did.
"On
Tuesday evening, May 12, 1936, the Captain of the Nazi
which had just arrived from Antwerp, Belgium,
came to your office and handed you a sealed package of orders
and propaganda. He laid it on your desk in this room. The
package contained copies of World Service "which is obtainable,
you remember, only by subscription at a dollar and a half a
ship Schwaben
,
year."
is not true" Schwinn
interrupted excitedly.
have a copy from the batch he brought to you. But let s
continue. On Monday, June 8, 1936, you yourself went to the
Nazi ship Weser and gave the captain secret reports to take back
to Germany and left with secret orders he had brought overorders sealed in brown, manila paper* and a large package of
Fichte-Bund propaganda. I have a copy from that batch, too."
Schwinn stared at me and then smiled. "You can t prove
anything," he said with assurance.
have affidavits about all these items and more affidavits
from men on board the Nazi ships."
s
"No
German on the ship
impossible!" he exclaimed.
would dare to sign an affidavit!"
"But I have them," I
repeated.
"It
"I
"I
"It
*
During the trial of the four Nazi spies in New York the Federal prosecutor
brought out that they also carried orders sealed in brown, manila paper.