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More dangerous than these groups to future Republican foreign policy are those anti-democratic forces that have attached themselves to the G.O.P. bandwagon during the last two or three years. The Hitler-sympathizing leaders in this country, from Coughlin to Pelley, have joined Republican ranks at election time thinking that the best way to foster their cause, for the inoment, was to back the most isolationist major Party. This was a marriage few Republicans liked, and now, at least for the time being, they have broken it. But these same insidious forces will be watchfully waiting to use the Party...
Last week U. S. Attorney General Biddle relieved postmen of carrying Social Justice around in their packs when he banned Father Coughlin's up-to-the-minute Fascist newsmagazine on the grounds of sedition under the espionage act. At 11:30 Sunday morning Social Justice distributors in Boston decided not only that they would ignore this crimp in their staff, but they would also assert their displeasure in no uncertain terms. The driver of a Social Justice truck, Joseph McDonald, kicked to pieces Traveler photographer Hansen's camera when he tried to take a picture of a newsboy handing...
...read and approved the magazine. An America First and Social Justice leader said last night that he thought the Traveler's "unfair" story would increase the number of Boston readers which far exceed the reported 200,000, he boasted. It is undeniable that the appeasers are anxious that Coughlin's paper should be more widely read. It is equally undeniable that the distributors of this "pure American" magazine know they have something to hide when they block the view of its sale and kick photographers' cameras around the street...
...Galilean, two months after Pearl Harbor, Pelley had written: "The typical American . . . gloats when any of the Axis powers reports success abroad-even against our own forces." Pinched, he pouted: "There hasn't been a damn thing in the magazine that Boake Carter, 'Ironpants' Johnson, Father Coughlin and many others haven't also said...
...maintained that the vast majority of Irish-Americans are solidly behind the war effort and that only a minority are going along with these ideas of Coughlin and Moran because of their loyalty to the Roman Catholic Church...