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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION/PRIVACY ACTS SECTION
COVER SHEET
SUBJECT: MILLER, HENRY
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e Mr. Rosenl'a1te?¥Jnche11 sent attached Mr. Tracy
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Mr. Hendon
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the affect that Henry Bills:-', who was dowriter, recently spoke aurtncuth G011of amber: otthn 8077-» Pilb It
Miller told the group that the Rani.-I Iarq
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forthe amzething um:-a:.==gu>auraeéma ! L». L _ I 30111 Edgar Boomer - Director, Federal Bu:-om at Investigation _
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of idgmzilying lliller and datemining the=q r;|_:_f. _o£_.b1I-,~ mad: at a recent. speech at that» ingnirlea
in 1;zn;m1_~.t.m- should generally follarap 11:21 of Q l0¢f;t-in
investigation the Bureau should be apwoprie.-he1yadvioed at
the results oryour inquiries in an inveatigatim mrcrh. It .
"is nut. the Du-ean'a desire that an aactensivu invustigationbo
conducbud in this matter mien your prelinlrmy inquiries indicate
the desirability of such a opux-an of action.
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JBureau advised that Suhgcpt ieialleged to have told a group -of V-12 students at College, Iia_nover,1_He_1'r Hampshire, '" that the Nazis were just, the [same sort of people as Ameri-'c.an,_s and were fightingwfor-the same thing. It 1reslfurth'er[ 'alleged that the Subject beliires that the Nazis areYdec'ent~people and that he likes collaborationists. I.nqui.ry'~at1~-'1-.I " ' Dartmouth reflected that Rovember, 19111;, the -subgyew"appeared before two classes in Qomparative Litereture; eon-of both V-l2qe._x1d' students but that no were the " 1
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Reference Bureau letter reflected that information hadbeen received to the effect that HENRY 1LILLE&uho ie 'described as a phony writer, recently spoke at DartmouthCollege before e group of members of the Ravy V-12 program.It was alleged that l£[1.1-ER told the group that the Naziswere just the same sort of people as the Americans and ,~. Ithat they were fighting for the sane thing. According to» / Ithe Bureau's source of information, the Subgect has e ./ .. _fO1lo1ring among pseudo-intellectuals in this country, believesthe Nazis are very decent people and likes collaborationista.From the meager descriptive data obtained from the originalI
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Comparative Literature.
The Subject had at Dartmouth some between November-1,2_;and -L ; =_
November l7, l9hh. The Subject appeared for fifty minutes before each
of these two classes in a quest1on-answer g-cup dis'cuss'ion. goth 0! these classes consis! dkof vmembers
of the Navy V-12 program as well as civilian students.
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was a vicious attack made on the
The article stated that the Subject had
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1'; Q/~ 1 cconcernixig. the fact that the Nazis were very <decen_t... people and thatwhe . p liked collaborationists, In fact, there was -nothing-whvich. could,.be' ~< .I D nsidered s'ub_vfersive'or un-American mentioned by _the- Sub e tq*92,~92 w we sew appam yfelt that t e u_ ec in some of his p1BV101lS wri indicated
an antii-Semitic attitude, and for this reason, had deliberately gone out
of his way to attempt to get the Subject to make statements which would
indicate this anti-Semitism.
It is to be noted that Accordin to_
the discussions had between Subject ere
concerned primarily with creative writing ere e initely non
political. Host of the questions asked by the students were concerned
with the source material of the books and articles written by the
Subject.
The Subject was described es being an ultra-modem
type of writer who went to such an extreme in the use of certain words
that may of his books were not allowed to be published in this country.
He stated, however, that the Subject has a substantial following among
military groups in this country ind is considered by many critics to be
one of the foremost American writers at this time.
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s o y actually met him on tvro different occasions» He stated
.-" that the Subject is strictly the artist type and could very easily .
be-called "screwball" by people who didn't understand or appreciate -;
' -A tantial sourc of l his writing. The Subject apparently has no subs e
bf_incomL_e,p his "chief income being obtain through
ff "of;-his followers who have
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,this information. He that most"o.t: the ~.writings.: of 1 .
i 1 hthatlthe Siibjeét is--in anyway subversive?!-ore m=-a.im~1¢an=:- 1He>stated ~ +
. thatthe Subject is considered somewhat'10f a':paciIist1a's'is' the-case ~ J *
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w c sses before which the Subject appears an e writer was ' '
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AT DARTIKJIITH QIOLLEGE, HALFSHIRE
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the Subject had given e talk be ore a ompara ive Literature class of
which he was a member and that at no time during this talk or the
resulting discussion was any mention made of the Nazis or other
problems involving current international politics. He stated that
the discussion was principally a question-answer affair, in which the
students questioned the Subject principally concerning the source of
the subject matter and material which the Subject had employed in many
of his books and writings. Another Subject which was discussed was
a comparison of the ethics and morals of the United States with those
of many of the countries in which the Subject had travelled.
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5 ; nonépolitical aiid;_.=were 'to.concern thems_elyes_;with~creatiazegrriting - »
and also concerni.ng"the writings of the ,sub;1e<=t.- »!os».t.¢1; 'tho questions
;§ which were put to.the Subject were concerning source .,£or,, ,
1 Hhivshbooks and-.also" concerning the ethics moral-s_ o1';,eo92mtriesE;|.n 5' ,,
which -the Subject had travelled, in coinp}ag:is.on w_i_th~ those ingthis 1
etatedi'th3t;'there;,was a_ guest prejsefzyby the name
it waszecessary ifo _ to advise that:-"the - V _was the" guest speaker o reirain fromf-asking a.¢;_' - - so many questions. According _ apparently..beeam'e:*ange_red_§'_, ~. at some statement which the Subject had ends, which he thought-had 1% "-
¥~ A been_ directs ' lly and from then on until he was' ' repulsed 1 me attempted to "hecklei the Subject.
t said that there was absolutely nothing said by the Subject which
: * co d be construed as being un-American or subversive and that no
l mention was made of the Nazis being decent people at that time such as
the Americans. f
time the Subject appeared before !m.
mch of the same information previously
He also s teted that there was no mention
during the s discussion with the class of current international
litical problems and that there was nothing said by the Subject which
could be construed as being un-American or subversive.
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