Decisive action to thwart fifth column activity in the United States is impending, Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner report in a Washington dispatch to the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc., published today by the New York Times.
All groups and societies with known Nazi, Fascist or Communist affiliations were already under constant surveillance, the dispatch said.
At last aware of the dangerous fifth column proaganda carried by many foreign language newspapers, the Justice Department assertedly was now considering a plan for a “talk and writing” act. This act would require that any publication, whether newspaper, pamphlet or book, which is financed directly or indirectly by a foreign government, disclose the fact plainly to prospective readers.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was daily increasing the number if its staff charged with preventing industrial sabotage and espionage, according to Kintner and Alsop.
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