nia very
well and can give you important information. We can give Allen
absolute confidence.

Hail and Victory,
HERMANN SCHWINN.

The "important matter" on which Allen was going East and which he
wanted to discuss with the national Nazi leader in this country, was
to contact the Italian Embassy, the Hungarian Legation, James True of
the James True Associates (distributors of "Industrial Control
Reports" from its headquarters in Washington, D.C.), George Deatherage
in St. Albans, W. Va., and several others.

Allen reported regularly to Chapman, signing his letters with the code
name "Rosenthal." I quote in part from one letter written from
Washington on January 24, 1938:

Upon calling at the Rumanian Embassy I found the Ambassador with
all his attaches are of the Carol-Tartarescu regime, and they
are sailing on Wednesday, January 26. The new Ambassador will
arrive with his staff on Saturday, I am told. The letter which
you gave me I mailed to Budapest myself, not daring to entrust
it to the present staff at the Embassy. At the Italian Embassy I
found the Ambassador away, but I had a very delightful and
satisfactory conference with Signor G. Cosmelli, who is the
Italian counselor....

Shortly after the conference at the Italian Embassy, True and Allen
conferred. Subsequently, True wrote to Allen and added a postscript in
long hand: "But be very careful about controlling the information and
destroy this letter."

Allen did not destroy it immediately. The letter, dated February 23,
1938, reads in part:

The bunch of money promised off and on for three years may come
through within the next week or two. We have had so many
disappointments that I hardly dare hope but there seems a fair
chance of results. If it comes through we will have you back
here in a hurry. You, George, and I will get together and
prepare for real action.

If your friends want some pea shooters, I have connections now
for any quantity and at the right price. They are United States
standard surplus. Let me know as soon as you can.

To these events must be added the peculiar and unexplained actions of
the Dies Congressional Committee appointed to "investigate subversive
activities." The Committee employed a Nazi propagandist as one of its
chief investigators and refused to questi