Show Walter Winchell J Letter Leffer to the German German- American Bund Thanks for betraying your your- bund was a a. j. j r 1 s school c h 0 0 1 for Yo t. t traitors The F FBI B i just jus t y i. i s snatched n a t c h e d ii t eight s sabo saboteurs a b o- o from w Berlin who confirmed it X J T That hat w was a y very helpful It may even shut the them m mouths 0 u t h s of certain d i st stin s- s t tin i n g u American d dopes 0 P e es e's s but Winch Winchell ll dont don't bet et on selves Some of ot us have been hollering all along that the it From the beginning we al always always always al- al ways argued that you had to tobe tobe tobe be a sneak and a throat cut-throat to get into the bund We We figured that a a aguy guy hired to sell out a country that sheltered fed and welcomed him had to be a per cent no good The dopes claimed you were nice guys guys guys- just misunderstood So thanks again for coming forward and proving yourselves rats All eight of the dynamiters under arrest were they admitted So you see where that leaves you dont don't you It puts the official nazi stamp on on your activities It comes out that the nazi consuls in New York San Francisco New Orleans etc di di- di I I you It doesn't jell with your claim that you ganged up for athletics and to improve Ger Ger- man American relations But then I suppose you can get a few laughs out of fooling those distinguished American dopes Th Those so called good citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens who squatted on bund platforms platforms platforms plat plat- forms and orated how wonderful you were Ill I'll bet you felt good that night in Madison Square Garden when they came right out for you Remember the in incident incident incident in- in Dorothy Thompson the canny girl spotted you for scum scum so so you threw her out You must have been proud of the way you tamed those Americans Americans Americans Amer Amer- who roosted on the rostrum rostrum rostrum ros ros- ros- ros trum and let you get getaway away with It They even agreed that Miss Thompson was a trouble That must have killed you Americans s c calling a 1 I i n g Dorothy Thompson Thompson from from a bund platform platform platform plat plat- form yet yet yet-a a trouble-maker trouble How do do yo you like that the eight saboteurs carried earned over here That's bad They had to explain it as bribe money you know to pay payoff off the subversives subversives subversives sub sub- for help to blow up war plants bridges stores etc That looks like something that in involves involves involves in- in you You can bet your dialects that if It the saboteurs saboteurs saboteurs sabo sabo- know any subversive people peo peo- pIe they met them at bund rallies See where It leaves you You have no idea of the record Mr Whiskers has of you chumps He used to jot down your license number when y you u came to meeting in your car Ach Dot Hoover The hell of it Is this this- You I dont don't know just how much J. J Edgar Hoover has on you Hes He's Hesso so wily that Hoover He puts I out so 50 much to the papers then i A holds out quite a lot to work on That's why you dont don't know when your front door is going 1 to tobe be kicked in and you'll have to explain how come It was a a. abad abad bad day for you wasn't it when you chummed up with those eight The minute they're in trouble trouble they they drag you into it A fine way for the master master master mas mas- ter race to behave Some of ot the men under arrest arrest arrest ar ar- ar- ar rest were your pals too You split many a heil hell together didn't you you And I suppose you swung a three-pound three flashlight with some of them on the heads of loyal Americans And goodness goodness goodness good good- ness knows how many jokes you had together about Those eight had your phone numbers and addresses And neat little on what your price is and what particular brand of ot dirty work you specialize special special- ize In They very obligingly slipped all that to the F FBI B I They were a very musical octet They sang their square heads off Anyway you look at it its it's a pretty stiff price youre you're going to pay for strutting around in brown shirts and feeling good about being the master race Copyright 1942 Daily Mirror S I |