FBI Files for publications: SCRIBNER'S COMMENTATOR and THE HERALD (1939-1941)

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

I am requesting any and all FBI files on the journals SCRIBNER's COMMENTATOR and THE HERALD, published between 1939-1941. The journals were edited by George Eggleston and published by Douglas Stewart. Ralph Townshend, also associated with these journals was convicted of being an unregistered agent of the Japanese government during World War II. Both journals were located in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. They were part of a network of Nazi propaganda outlets and closely associated with Charles Lindbergh. They both went out of business immediately after Pearl Harbor.

These journals and their publishers are discussed in:
Max Wallace, The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003): 255-258. On page 435 of that book the author cites "SCRIBNER'S COMMENTATOR, FOIA, file #100-2585. I would like that file and any other files found in a search for related information.

Newspaper coverage of these journals included:

“Scribner’s Magazine Joined To Commentator: First Issue Of Combined Publications Will Be Distributed On October 20,” Baltimore Sun, September 20, 1939;
“Magazine Under Inquiry: Grand Jury on Nazi Propaganda Ponders Scribner’s Commentator,” New York Times, November 6, 1941.
Dillard Stokes, “Costly Radios Kept Pro-Nazi Paper Tuned to New Order: Pro-Nazi Paper Had Costly Radio,” The Washington Post (1923-1954), November 29, 1941
“Scribner’s Commentator Magazine Is Praised by Weekly Bund Publication,” Capital Times, November 30, 1941;
“Writer Guilty As Jap Agent,” The Washington Post (1923-1954), March 28, 1942.
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES, “Stewart Cleared of Perjury Charge: Jury Acquits Former Publisher Accused of Receiving $15,000 for German Propaganda,” New York Times, March 26, 1947.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

John Jackson