No. 3

World War II produced a new kind of traitor--men who openly broadcast for the enemy, tried to undermine U.S. morale. Three were brought to trial. Expatriot Poet Ezra Pound was arrested in Italy, escaped conviction when he was pronounced insane. Chicago-born Douglas Chandler, the "American Lord Haw-Haw," was sentenced to life imprisonment. Last week, in Boston's Federal District Court, Robert H. Best, 52, was also sentenced to life and fined $10,000.

Born the son of a South Carolina Methodist preacher, once a Pulitzer scholar in journalism, for 18 years U.P. correspondent in Vienna, Best had made some 300 broadcasts for the Nazis. He had demanded that Congress impeach "that paranoiacal paralytic in the White House," sue for peace, and join Hitler's war against Communism and "mankind's abomination and curse . . . namely, the Christ killers, the kikes, the damn hyphen Jews."

His lawyer had pleaded that he was "a fanatic . . . doing what he thought best for his country." Said Federal Judge Francis J. W. Ford, who had taken more than two months to mull over the evidence: "A fanatic can do as much harm to his country as any other person."

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