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...Before Pearl Harbor the Christian Front flourished among the Irish in South Boston and America First found a blessing in the Back Bay," continued Grant. "Since Pearl Harbor, Front leader Francis P. Moran has limited his activities to increasing the 10,000 copies a week circulation of Father Coughlin's 'Social Justice,' which is sold outside every Catholic church in the city...
...spokesman for Coughlin, Father Curran of Brooklyn, has taken up "the fight against the fight for freedom," continuing the "old Christian Front line...
...published in almost every state are doing as much damage as if Goebbels were broadcasting every day to us on national hook-up. They all say essentially the same things. Roosevelt started the war. Churchill started the war. The Jew started the war. The Communists started the war. Father Coughlin's rabble rousing "Social justice" is still permitted to accuse the United States of invading Ireland, to put the blame for the war openly on the democracies, and hint that we are being bled by international bankers to further some nefarious cause...
...never informed the country about Japanese espionage, and it was a mere two months after Pearl Harbor that he started preparing a "Yellow Paper." The damage was done, but Martin, in a confidential way, wanted to tell us that the Japs were a menace. Did he ever question Coughlin about his well-organized attempt to stir up racial hatred and internal dissension --undoubtedly the best attempt in the last 75 years? No. Instead he shared platforms with many of Coughlin's stalwart fascist supporters. Did he ever come out with his promised exposure of a plot by Italian Fascists? Never...
...pretty plain that snobbery was not the word. The Government likewise puzzled over "The Strangers," particularly, it seemed, over the Commentator-Herald master mailing list, now said to comprise 500,000 names. Most of its names were supposedly supplied by isolationist Congressmen Wheeler, Nye, Fish, by Lindbergh and Father Coughlin, by America First and "other organizations." After big isolationist meetings the speakers are reported to have baled up tens of thousands of fan letters and sent them along to Scribner's Commentator and The Herald. There is nothing suspicious in having a mailing list-many businesses have them...