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.■■; Un-American activities in the. / United States will be investigated . by ahouse of representatives / committee this summer.* 7 -V- j ■, v . r -■,kr\... k : /•- -. *■During * the debate .on ? thec resolutiorl f whichauthorized $25,000. for investigation/ the ;Ger^’ 4 ' - ' ' ■ ‘ ' r *4 .*• *• : . ‘ f 1 r - / *' ‘man-American bund ‘ was ofteh- referred tolJack Stinnett, As’8qch^vPce0^^i^^Wr7 ice writer, has attempted to fihd- the^tHe1facts behind the' build’s ^ activities, bHereofs the first survey, of the -findingsi-reyeaiediin 'his two-part report. / ,,V'-. v _ __l_ ../.*. _■ ' v•: * ’ ^7,*'jyi^NEW YOK;—Behind - a plaih^wbodeh desk in a shabby old. Yorkville-building * sits Fritz Kuhn. •/•..-Kuhn is a big man. His 'sluhvis?fougli;: - •••■: fry- -His bearing reminds one of the drill grouhds of Europe. It is no surprise-: wKeifhfe^hllsyou he served in the Bavarianihg the World war and marched^itfi; Hitlerin the beer putsch of 1923. ; /M'r • . i ' i ’ % ’Today Kuhn is national fuehrer ^ of-the German-American bund.-Brusquely^ _ ......lief tells hbout4Didn!t See Mr. Hitler'/“I went to see my father land mother - in Munich/’ he says. ‘‘They*are rwell. I; did hot sec Mr. Hitler.; I did not see'Mr. Goering. I did not see anyone on any matter, pertaining to the bund. We never have got any money from Germany.. •.. .. ;* '•ft'1,- - *.■ .... ',\y(Anti-nazis assert Germany is spending large siims^as much as $30,000,000 a year-r— for propaganda.in the United Seates. They say the bund gets its share)-*I asked Kuhn about the bund. He told me—..... :i r * ’ ■. v“We are- an organization of law-abiding Americans of German stock.; Our purpose and aims are set forth in a pamphlet you eaii get across the hall. Now,, what else?”I asked, him about the eventual goal ofthe bund.. .. • , .“You .can; _say ..this/’ .he boomed. “The' • .German-American bund will never do any-.** -thing outside the la\v or in violation of the constitution.”\fHe’s An AmericanThat of course does not preclude political activity. And one of the things I learned at headquarters—from Kuhn himself as well‘ ' * ’’ r V .as from the national secretary—is that the bund, plans to enter politics. . • :For the rest, Kuhn insists the bund has1 m •no ritual, no secret initiation, no vows.Kuhn Came to America in 1927, went to Detroit where he became a chemist at the Ford plant. Now an American citizen, he is married, has a ^daughter 14 and a son 11. When lie became the bund’s national ‘ leader
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Chicago Daily Illini
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sat, Jul 09, 1938
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