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This whole invasion is a power lust, blood drunk orgy in a war which is unholy and for which the U.S. will be called to terrible accounting... They fight the common enemy. They fight for independence of Europe—independence from the Jews.
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testified that they had kept her under surveillance for several months. Ingalls was convicted, and sentenced to eight months to two years in prison on
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broadcasts. She was prevented from entering Mexico, but was not prosecuted. Ingalls applied for a presidential pardon in 1950, but her application for clemency was rejected by two successive
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