German American Bund
1797/ I 3
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BRITISH EMBASSY,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
December 14th, 1999.
Ho« 1420
My Lord,
With reference to paragraph 3 of ray despatch
So* 1195 of the 9th October, I have the honour to
transmit to Your Lordship herewith a copy of a memo*
random drawn op by His Majesty's Consulate General
at Sew York describing the trial of Frits Kuhn,
"FuehrerM of the Gorman-Amer ic an Bund, on charges °*
larceny and forgery*   Since the memorandum was written
Kuhn has been awarded a sentence of 2$ to 5 years
imprisonment*   lie Is now in Sing Sing.
8* The Bund represent their erstwhile leader as
a martyr, the ""first American prisoner of war", as
their paper puts it.   In spite of this it is fairly
safe to predict that the career of this particular
"Fuehrer" Is finished and that we shall not hear any
more about him*   The Nazis themselves seem to realize
that the Bund is thoroughly discredited and to be
turning their attention to more subtle means of pro-
paganda and subversion*   The German Consul-Goneral in
San Francisco, Captain Wiedemann, for instance has on
a recent occasion openly expressed his disapproval of
the Bund and has advised Germans la the United States
to stay clear of it •   Of course it is always possible
that It may be their intention to appear to repudiate
the Bund simply in order to withdraw its activities
from an unwelcome limelight*
The Right Honourable L:AR:CL
The Viscount Halifax, K. 0.
etc*,        etc#, ete«