Lorence Asman

Lorence Elmer Asman (born January 29, 1924) also Larry Asman was the founder of the Western Hemisphere Committee Against Communism. He was born in St.Louis, Michigan of German parents who immigrated from the Ukraine. He drew anti-war cartoons for the American First Committee and was a close associate of Gerald L. K. Smith. Asman headed one of Smith's front organizations: Christian Veterans Intelligence Committee.

In 1943 Asman wrote a "scurrilous" letter to President Roosevelt and was arrested by the Secret Service.

He was drafted in 1943 and assigned to the 1800th Engineers Battalion based in Tennessee. He claimed his unit was filled with "American Firsters, Christian Front leaders, Silver Shirt members, Bundists, ex-members of the National Socialist Party and German Army, Ku Klux Klan members" and others considered "dangerous, disaffected, disloyal and subversive and pro-National Socialist."

He was discharged in February 1946 and began to work with Gerald L.K. Smith. Asman replaced George Vose as head of Smith's Christian Veterans of America.

Leaflets

• 20,000 Little Brown Bastards (1946) A leaflet widely circulated addressing the issue of illegitimate children father by Black American soldiers and White girls of Europe.

External link

• The Political Graveyard