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LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISION\n\nBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET  \nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \n50  \n另  \nTox 342  \nSilver shirt logion of America.  \nOfficial despatch no.1.Asheville,N.C.,Silver legion headquarters c193-?7 p.  \n√Silver shirt logion of America.  \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:   Reproductions may not be made without permission from Columbia University Libraries.                   \n## TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA\n\nFILM SIZE:35mMBEDUCTION BATIO:              9:1MAGE PLACEMENT IA IB IB  \nINITIALS:          PB  \n  1-|197    \nDATE FILMED:  \nTBACKING\\#:                                                                                                    28944  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n1  \n308己  \n## SILVER LEGION HEADQUARTERSASHEVILLE,NORTH CAROLINA\n\nBx 4   \nofficial Despatch No.1:  \nIt is essential for you to know what we are fighting for,what we pro-pose to accomplish,and something of how we propose to accomplish it.Thebroadsides of expose material which we have fired throughout this nationhave forced the public malefactors to take note of us and rumblings arecoming to our attention of aggressive activity taken against us which mayshow upon the surface at any time.Having discovered to their own amazementhow easy itis,under the hysteria of a national emergency,to set aside ourConstitutional rights in the matter of owning gold on which our whole cur-rency system has been founded since the days of Alexander Hamilton,and toset up the instrumentality for a Soviet Dictatorship right here in Americain the guise of the N-R-A,it may not be much longer before they arrogantlyabrogate our Constitutional rights of a free press and free speech and saythat no institution or no individual shall have the privilege of uttering anycriticism against them,or discuss publicly what they are doing to maketheir alien autocracy complete.  \nIf,as,and when this happens,it must be a point of honor with you totake it as a signal for a galvanism of activity in your particular locality.You must then carry on promotion of the work by word of mouth,consideringyourself a little distributing point of information and peaceful agitation.Unfortunately,so low has the public morale sunken in this country,thatthus must we freemen fight individually for our Constitutional rightsagainst a group of aliens,thousands of whom have no right in this countryat al1,(under our immigration laws,but who have so securely entrenchedthemselves in official positions that any public remonstrance against themis ignored,suppressed,or subverted for their own purposes.  \nAs you have been advised,The Silver Legion of America is a ChristianMilitia,only soliciting for its fighting ranks those men and women ofChristian faith and American citizenship whose paramount ideal is not onlyto restore inviolate our republican form of institutions politically --understand,I do not mean the Republican party --but see that they are ad-ministered strictly by people of their own faith and ideals.That is ourfirst tenet.  \nWe declare to the nation that we stand for the absolute and impeccableintegrity of the United States of America and its representative form ofgovernment envisioned and projected by the Continental Fathers,and for theConstitution of the United States in its moral and economic essence.Therecan be,and will be,no deviation from this affirmation at any time,and mayour detractors so note.We are the unalterable foes of the Russian-Jewishform of Communistic governnent,against which Adolph Hitler is making such a  \ngritty and successful stand at the present time.We waste no sympathy forthose who are complaining of being \"persecuted\"for we have secret know1-edge that they are whining at treatment which thy meted out to the GermanFatherland without let or hindrance since long before the war,untilthey had brought Germany almost down to 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