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® £ 62-6782 JOSEPH McWILLIAMS spoke and accused England of being the greatest war-mongering country in the world and trying to involve e United States in the present war because sle is standing on her last Jeg. He said England went so far as to sink her ovm ship, the Athenia, which was bringing American citirens to this coantry as they trough? it would arouse the American reopte to speak cf nothing but war. Ve said he thought the bomb whica exploded at the World's Fair nai been planted by the Britis: in crder to gain the sympathy of the American people. He stated ihat certain people call FORD and LINDBERGH Fifth Columnists, and that if these great men were Fifth Columnists he was proud to be in their class. He said that when he was taken to court for his cpecches it cost him one thousand dollars in trials but that he got at lcest ten thou- sand dollars' worth of publicity from them. Hc predicted that when he was elected to Congress he would blow the lid off the adminis- tration in Washington. A meeting of the American Destiny Party was held on July 6, 1940, on the street at 73rd Street east of First Avenue. About 600 persons were’ present. DONALDYCASANOVA was chairman. manils me Speakers platform wes on a covered wagon. JAMES DOWNEY spoke and stated that President ROOSEVELT was é@ failure and should step aside and allow someone else to have a chance cf solving our problems. He scia the British are traitors because they allowed Poland, Czechoslovakia, and France to fall. He claimed the Internationalists (Jews) were trying to involve us im the war and would do so unless we support men such as RUSH HOLT, fevator WHEELER, and McWILLIAMS. DONALD SHEA, Washington, D. C., spoke and blamed the sufferings of the Americans on the manipulations of the government in the value cf pold. He claimed that a certain element was trying ko take away the right of free speech to real Americans. He praised Senator WHEELER, RUSH HOLJ, Congressman THORKELSON, and McWILLIAMS. JAMES STEWART spoke and stated that an indication of the intolerance used against persons who fight for Christian ideals was thet he was arrested and brought to police headquarters at 12 o'clock at night and questioned regarding the bombing of the World's Fair and claimed that he had never been arrested in his life and had fought and been wounded defending this country. -l-