Leslie Fry [i.e. Paquita Louise de Shishmareff, born Louise ...

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Leslie Fry [i.e. Paquita Louise de Shishmareff, born Louise A. Chandor]: 'Waters Flowing Eastward', Chatou, France, British American Press, 1934, 3rd edition, revised and enlarged, 277,[2]pp, original printed wraps. Third edition of this virulently anti-Semitic conspiracy theory work, which asserts that Jews were to blame for both Capitalism and Bolshevism, and that it was primarily certain Jews who started World War I. The author spent much of the 1920s and 1930s in fascist circles in the United States, using her family wealth to support right-wing organizations. Called "the most active fascist in southern California", Fry was also a paid Nazi agent who worked to cultivate Nazism in the United States. She attempted to unify various American fascist movements. (Rosenzweig, Laura B. 'Hollywood's Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles', 2017)