TREASON: American Lord Haw-Haw

For 17 days in Boston's federal district court, twelve jurors had sat and watched the thin, arrogant face of Traitor Douglas Chandler, the first man in U.S. history to be tried for giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy by broadcasting propaganda.

Chicago-born Defendant Chandler had been an officer in the U.S. Navy in World War I, worked as a newspaperman in Baltimore. He had married a wealthy woman. In 1931, ruined by the depression, he left the U.S., talking bitterly of the "unAmerican fog spreading over the land from the swamp of...

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