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Chicago Cancels Brinkley to when Sponsors Are Discover

April 15, 1934
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A lecture by Doug Brinkley, American journalist who spent the last fourteen months in Nazi Germany arranged by the Chicago group of the Friends of New Germany, was cancelled after a protest by anti-Nazi organizations here.

The lecture was to have been held in the largest hall in Chicago, The Masonic Temple. Sponsors of the meeting merely announced that Doug Brinkley was to speak without disclosing the subject.

When the building management discovered who the sponsors were, the cash deposit paid by the Friends of New Germany was returned and the meeting cancelled. On April 4, in Town Hall in York, Brinkley delivered a before an audience of some Nazi adherents. The lecture scribed Nazi Germany as a filled with “happy, smilingly.” He praised Adolf highly, calling him “infallible delivered the usual attacks German Jews for having “polished the professions in many.”

Brinkley denied that he propagandist and declared the would make a nation-wide to tell Americans of the benefit Hitlerism.

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