Flogged Horse '46

The aim of every entry here is to provide at least one footnote or work cited for some ambitious future scholar or student term paper. These observations are intended to dig deeper than the convenient rehash or approved wiki.

That in mind, today I’m just going to point out the lingering effect of the dead-in-the-water sedition trial from the death of presiding elder Eicher in Nov. ‘44 until it was dismissed by Bolitha Laws two years later.

I am particularly fascinated at how the pro-Soviet press continued to lambast the defendants after VE Day in May of ‘45. It almost reads like WW2 was a war to make the world safe for socialism.

Here’s a fun item about our lady Liz Dilling and co-defendant Ellis O. Jones from January ‘46…

^This is a mainstream wire story and they have thrown in the towel. “Mr. Jones was a co-defendant with Mrs. Dilling in a mass sedition trial in Washington in 1944.” Ancient history to your average daily reader. In 1946 who cares? The communist press, that’s who, including the Daily Worker and JTA, who stubbornly cling to the trial in present tense until the very end.

I mean, technically they were right, and a federal probation officer over a DC trial was telling people in Chicago that they weren’t allowed under the same roof (?). This observation also gives me an excuse to share a couple more watermarked images of Mrs. Dilling.

I think the value in publishing rough thumbnail images will increase as reverse image search tools improve and become more accurate, garner more results. I won’t claim to have reverse searched every image I include here, but many I have, with an end to sharing the best available file.

That said…

Coming up… we aren’t finished with Brennemann and we’re just getting started on Broenstrupp, so stay tuned.

Here’s something I found amusing… a news photo of H.V. Broenstrupp with Lois de Lafayette Washburn, demonstrating a stiff-arm salute for the press, previously offered for sale on A****n, suitable for framing and display in your living room! They have since scrubbed the listing. Nowadays… what a disappointment.