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August 2, 1947

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DEMOCRACY'S FRIEND

E. J. Kahn

PROFILE of Leon Milton Birkhead, head of Friends of Democracy, Inc. Tyler Kent, a U.S. foreign service man, during the war, convicted of selling military …