"ATTEMPT TO ORGANIZE COMMUNIST LEAGUE AMONG SOLDIERS"

ARMY PRIVATE SENTENCED TO 40 YEARS IN PRISON FOR COMMUNIST PREACHING

Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands (JFK+50) On April 4, 1925, Associated Press reports that one Private Paul Crouch of the 21st Infantry, United States Army, "was sent to 40 years imprisonment and given a dishonorable discharge" after being convicted of an attempt to organize the revolutionary communist league among soldiers stationed at Schofield Barracks* here in Hawaii.

According to the AP report...

"Crouch was charged with having issued propaganda under the pretext of being a teacher of Esperanto at Army schools." 

*Schofield Barracks is a US Army installation located in the Wahiawa District on Oahu, Hawaii.  

 SOURCE 

"Gets 40 year Term For 'Red' Preaching," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., April 4, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/

Schofield Barracks

Honolulu, Hawaii

April 30, 2014

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"THEY COME FOR POLITICAL DISCOURSE, MILITARY EVALUATION &....VACATION"

PRESIDENT KENNEDY VISITS THE ALOHA STATE 

Honolulu, Hawaii (JFK+50) On June 9, 1963, President John F. Kennedy visited the Hawaiian Islands where he addressed the US Conference of Mayors at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel.  The subject of the President's speech was the role of federal and state government in the struggle for civil rights.

The President, who described the issue of race relations as a "national problem," called on the mayors to "look at (their) own unemployment, delinquency (and) housing indicators" with respect to race.

The President said he would work with the mayors "in every way we can," and that "the federal government, through legislative and executive action (can)...provide peaceful remedies."

In addition to JFK, POTUS who have visited Hawaii during their presidential years include William Howard Taft (1905), FDR (1944), LBJ (1966), Gerald R. Ford (1975), Ronald Reagan (1986), George H.W. Bush (1991), Bill Clinton (1995), George W. Bush (2003), Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

Jonathan Saupe writes...

"They come for a number of reasons:  political discourse, military evaluation and planning, economic development and...vacation."

SOURCES

"Address to U.S. Conference of Mayors, Honolulu, Hawaii, 9 June, 1963," www.jfklibrary.org/

"From Taft to Trump, here's a look at presidents who have graced its shores," by Jonathan Saupe, February 19, 2018, www.hawaiinewsnow.com/

Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel

Honolulu, Hawaii