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World News See other World News Articles Title: The Great Lawfare Event of 1944 Lawrence Dennis & Maximilian St. George In 1944, when the Allies were on the cusp of winning the Second World War, the Roosevelt administration’s Justice Department put thirty people on trial for “sedition.” The trial was not justice. It was lawfare meant to suppress wise ideas masquerading as a public relations stunt. The story of this lawfare, and the people involved, still resonates eighty years after the trial’s conclusion. In many ways, the internationalist and anti-white system in place in the 1940s remains as strong today as then, but in some ways, there are significant changes. The Victims of the Lawfare The thirty on trial were unjustly prosecuted by a leftist US Justice Department attorney named O. John Rogge. His victims were: Joseph E. McWilliams, George E. Deatherage, William Dudley Pelley, James True, James Edward Smythe, Lawrence Dennis, Howard Victor Broenstrupp, Robert Edward Edmonson, E. J. Parker Sage, William Robert Lyman, Jr., Garland L. Alderman, Gerald B. Winrod, Elizabeth Dilling, Charles B. Hudson, Elmer J. Garner, George Sylvester Viereck, Prescott Freeze Dennett, Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, Hermann Schwinn, Hans Diehel, Franz K. Ferenz, Ernest Frederick Elmhurst, Robert Noble, Ellis O. Jones, Eugene Nelson Sanctuary, David Baxter, Lois de Lafayette Washburn, Frank W. Clark, Peter Stahrenberg, and August Klapprutt. More than two-thirds of the group were native born Anglo-Saxons or old-stock Americans. The rest were Germans who were sympathetic to both isolationism and Nazi Germany. Collectively they’d argued for an America First foreign policy and tended by be anti-Communist. All were wise to the Jewish Question. The defendants were tried under the Sedition Act of 1940. This act applied in peacetime, and it had a clause that one couldn’t encourage insubordination within the service, which according to the Justice Department, the defendants were attempting on a grand scale. All were respectable citizens. Eugene Sanctuary and Lawrence Dennis had served in the military. Dennis had served in the infantry during World War I, and then served in the US State Department afterwards. Dennis also attempted a second enlistment – as a commissioned officer in the military police – during World War II. William Lyman was in the US Merchant Marine shipping supplies to England when he discovered he’d been indicted. George S. Viereck’s son, was killed in action while serving in the US Army in Italy. Prescott Dennett was distributing isolationist content as part of the ordinary wider political network of two congressmen. Three had been convicted of offences prior to this trial. William Dudley Pelley and Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze were convicted of the Espionage Act of 1917. George Viereck had been convicted of a crime earlier also. He’d been a registered agent of the German Government prior to the war, and after America entered the conflict, was tripped up in a process crime – a “your papers are out of order” sort of thing. William Dudley Pelley and George Viereck had a considerable nationwide following before the trial, but most had small, albeit nationwide and dedicated audiences, or were mostly engaged in local affairs. None had the prominence of any mainstream politician of the time. All were engaged in constitutionally protected speech. Lawrence Dennis and his lawyer Maximilian St. George published a book about the trial after its conclusion. “The biggest single idea of the [1944 Sedition] Trial,” writes Dennis and St. George, “was that of linking Nazism with isolationism, anti-Semitism, and anti-communism. The fallacy of the identification in each instance is obvious to the informed and thinking person. American isolationism was born with George Washington’s Farewell Address, not with anything the Nazis ever penned. As for anti-Semitism, it has flourished since the dawn of Jewish history. It is as old and widespread as the Jews. The only large areas where anti-Semitism does not exist are areas in which Jews are not found.” (p. 34) Those Calling for the Lawfare The prosecutor for the trial was representing a vengeful constituency comprising three parts. The first part consisted of leftists who were sympathetic to the Soviet Union or simply anti-fascist liberals who acted as International Communism’s useful idiot supporters. The second was the Organized Jewish Community. The Anti-Defamation League had sent infiltrators and spies into anti-war, anti-communist organizations prior to World War II and had handed over the illicitly gathered information to America’s semi-competent Praetorian Guard, the FBI. Jews had also done everything possible to maneuver the US government into the Second World War prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The final group is the most significant. They were Anglo-Saxon internationalists and progressives. (Anglo-Saxons here being Anglos, Celts, Scandinavians, Germanics, and related peoples who’d coalesced, more-or-less, into a single people in the United States after the Civil War.) This group was acting on a genuine group evolutionary strategy which, at the time, was two sided. The men and women on trial represented the first group evolutionary strategy – avoid Jews, malignant social ideas like communism, and avoid overseas military commitments. The second strategy was internationalism, which was a policy presumed to be led by Anglo-Saxons and for Anglo-Saxons with other peoples uplifted in some way. This second strategy had some overlap with the first in that it was first propagated by Anglo-Saxon ethnonationalists like Josiah Strong in the 1880s. However, Strong’s “Social Gospel” had a logic which led to an ever-expanding progressive internationalism which created a mob of voters who disliked sin but liked American internationalism and global government schemes such as the League of Nations. During World War II, this group was inspired by the book One World (1943), written by Wendell Willkie. They also were inspired by Woodrow Wilson’s idealism. Other internationalists were Vice President Henry Wallace, who supported the prosecution from his official position throughout the trial, and people like Alger Hiss. This internationalism also contained the negatives of Anglo-American culture. Included in it was Negro Worship, the plantation economic system, and the naive belief that setting up a Parliament of Man would civilize dangerous tribes rather than empower them with modern weaponry gained through international trade connections. Probably the last genuine Anglo-Saxon internationalist of this stripe was President George H.W. Bush, who got America involved in a pointless deployment in Somalia after being voted out of office in 1992. The Trial The Trial was held in Washington D.C. and started on April 17, 1944. The Prosecutor’s opening statement was long, filled with moralizing over “Nazism,” and it bored the jury. Dennis and St. George wrote: Periodically, throughout his opening statement, Rogge would refer to the law and the charge in the indictment and then go off again on a tangent of argument and interpretation revolving around the Nazi movement in Germany. (p. 172) The opening statement and its lack of evidence continued throughout the trial, which went on until late November. “The evidence provided no surprises, thrills, sensations or even newsworthy material. Therefore, the press gradually dropped the Trial and stopped covering it, with the exception of some two or three reporters who remained to the end.” (p. 294) The most sensational event, if there was one, was when the government’s witness, Henry D. Allen, who was a member of Pelley’s Silver Shirts, and was therefore a hostile witness for the prosecution, broke down on the witness stand when describing an Antifa attack on his son. During this episode, and his daughters – two beautiful young women – ran to comfort him. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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