Biography
Lawrence Dennis was a former American diplomat, financial commentator, and author who advocated an American form of fascism. He published the Weekly Foreign Letter and later coauthored A Trial on Trial, an account criticizing the Washington prosecution in which he was a defendant. He was named in the January 3, 1944 Washington indictment alleging conspiracy to undermine military loyalty under the Smith Act. The mass trial ended in a mistrial on December 7, 1944. The indictment was dismissed in December 1946; no conviction resulted in this case.