News Brief

Excerpts from the report, dealing with Nazi and Fascist activities follow:

“There are approximately 80 (German) bunds in the United States with approximately 25,000 active members. The fact has also been established that some 100,000 persons are willing to be seen at public manifestations of the Bund. From the storm troops membership, the Bund can muster within its own ranks a uniformed force of 5,000 storm troops, and it was testified that in time of necessity this force could be augmented with ‘strong-arm’ detachments of allied groups, such as Italian Black Shiris, Silver Shirts, Ukrainians, White Russians and similar organizations fashioned after the Hitler storm troops.

“Despite contrary assertions, evidence showed that Bund members have privately admitted they are not American citizens but German citizens….The investigation was seriously hampered and handicapped because as soon as the resolution (establishing the committee) was adopted by Congress, Bund officials issued an order to their posts throughout the country to destroy all records.

“Evidence indicates that every effort is expended by the Bund’s high command to instill in boys and girls doctrines of racial and religious hatred preached under the pagan German Hitler.” Then follows a description of the similarity of the Bund youth movements with those in Germany.

“American-Italian Black Shirt legions, 10,000 strong, are marching in America. Behind them are 100,000 Americans of Italian descent.

“Many of the anti-racial organizations are created for pecuniary and selfish aggrandizement of the crackpots whose offspring they are. Some are tinged with the virus of Nazi or Fascist activity….. The use of the words ‘American,’ ‘Christian,’ ‘defenders,’ ‘national’ and ‘patriotic’ are used to create racial and religious intolerance in America and have been an instrumentality by which carping critics of the changing social order here have tried to stop progress.”