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...Father Coughlin, well-known in America for his undaunted struggle against Bolshevism and Jewry, has once again been given a taste of the method of oppression so common in the world's freest democracy...
Thus radio Berlin tried to make capital of the news that the Coughlinite weekly Social Justice had been barred from the U.S. mails. The crackdown on Coughlin was not going to stop there. Attorney.General Biddle announced that he would ask a Federal grand jury (the same jury which nailed Nazi Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck and Ham Fish's Secretary George Hill) to indict Social Justice for sedition, on grounds of peddling "enemy propaganda" and "a systematic and unscrupulous attack upon the war effort of our nation, both civilian and military...
...Coughlin Is Nazi Mouthpiece...
According to Grant, Father Coughlin, who recently took full responsibility for all Social Justice policy, is the chief mouthpiece of Nazi propaganda in the United States. He added that although Coughlin might well be allowed to print such propaganda in peacetime, publishing it in wartime is a different matter...
Grant also favored the ban on the grounds that Democracy must make a show of force in times of crisis. Comparing Coughlin's Social Justice with Hitler's abortive Beer Cellar Putsch, which took place in the days of the Weimar Republic, Grant said. "At that time, German Democracy showed that it was either weak or else that it had no confidence in itself, by handling the conspirators with kid gloves and letting them off with relatively easy sentences. Had the German government been stronger or had it had more confidence in itself. Hitler might well have not risen...