ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1900 - 1949.
Jezik: Engleski
Tematika: Istorija
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Autor: Strani

John Ray Carlson - Under cover
My four years in Nazi Underworld of America
The amazing revelation of how axis agents and our enemies within are now plotting to destroy the United States.

E.P. Dutton, New York, 1943.
Tvrd povez, 544 strane, ilustrovano.
RETKO!

Arthur Derounian (born Avedis Boghos Derounian (Armenian: Աւետիս Պօղոս ՏԷրունեան),[1][2][3][4] April 9, 1909 – April 23, 1991),[5] also known as John Roy Carlson among many pen names, was an Armenian-American journalist and author, best-selling author of Under Cover.[6]

Derounian wrote for the Armenian Mirror-Spectator, Fortune Magazine, the Council Against Intolerance and the Friends of Democracy. [7] In the 1950s he founded and managed the Armenian Information Service, which made a number of publications. His exposé writing has been the subject of lawsuits.[8][9]

Derounian is also notable for editing the manifesto of Armenia`s first Prime Minister, Hovhannes Kajaznuni.[10]
Personal life

He was born to Boghos Derounian and Eliza Aprahamian in Dedeagach, Adrianople Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (today Alexandroupoli, Greece).[citation needed] The Balkan Wars and First World War had an unsettling effect on the entire region, and his hometown repeatedly changed hands. The family moved several times, spending time in Turkey and Sofia, Bulgaria, where his brother Steven Derounian (who was later elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Long Island) was born.[11][12] Eventually the family emigrated to the United States, settling in Mineola, New York. He went on to study at New York University`s School of Journalism. Later, he married Marie Nazarian and had a daughter named Elyse and a son named Robert.[citation needed]

He died of a heart attack on April 23, 1991, while researching at the library of the American Jewish Committee on East 56th Street.[citation neede
Under Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America - The Amazing Revelation of How Axis Agents and Our Enemies Within Are Now Plotting To Destroy the United States` became a best seller when published in 1943.

Derounian was a tireless investigator of subversive activity, and infiltrated numerous `patriotic` groups, some of which he listed in the opening of his book Under Cover: German American Bund, Christian Front, American Nationalist Party, American Women Against Communism, The Gray Shirts, America First Committee, Christian Mobilizers, The American Defense Society, Anglo-Saxon Federation of America, National Workers League, Yankee Freemen, Flanders Hall, American Patriots among many others.

Among the groups he also helped expose was the international Nazi propaganda news agency World-Service.

He was also the chief investigator of the anti-fascist organization, Friends of Democracy.[14]

In a speech Representative Arthur G. Klein attempted to give in the US House in 1944 and which was printed in The Nation, Klein praises Derounian`s book Under Cover:

They (Americans) fail to understand, for instance, the reasons for and the character of the attack on John Roy Carlson, whose book, Under Cover has opened the eyes of so many to the existence of subversive propaganda and propagandists in our own midst. They are puzzled that the broad and profound values of the book should be overlooked and thrust aside because of trivialities.....For the issues that are treated in the book, the revelations that are made, and their high average of accuracy are far too important for light dismissal.[15]

Lawsuits related to Under Cover

This expose made him enemies, and several parties instituted actions against him for alleged libelous material.[citation needed] Three of the four cases failed the consolidated case before the jury, leaving a verdict in favor only of lawyer Jeremiah Stokes, which was later overturned. The lawsuit claimed that Derounian had held Stokes up for ridicule. Stokes is first mentioned on page 365 of Under Cover, and his patriotism questioned in the next chapter, which begins:

I was in the room alone with two men. The one who had pumped both my hands in welcome was a small round man with a bald dome and rotund face. He had small, beady eyes and he peered at you from behind rimmed glasses. He was definitely of the single-track, uncompromising zealot type. Jeremiah Stokes had let his law practice slide and was devoting the major portion of his time to the writing of `patriotic` tracts.

Derounian appealed; the appellate court reversed the district court and remanded the matter, stating in the overview:[9]

The court found error in the submission to the jury of a physical description of the individual as small and rotund in stature, bald, round of face, and having small and beady eyes. The description of the individual was not reasonably calculated to subject him to public ridicule. It was an error to submit to the jury ridicule of personal appearance as an element of damages.