Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Priest. Rivaled in demagogic genius only by Germany's Hitler is Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin. Two Sundays ago the radiorating priest climaxed his battle against the World Court. In the course of his regular afternoon broadcast he appealed thus to uncounted millions: "Today, whether you can afford it or not, telegraph your Senator in Washington this simple, vital message: Vote 'no' on the World Court with or without reservations...
...Father Coughlin concluded his address by reciting as a prayer the 82nd Psalm, with interpolations. Excerpts: "Oh God . . . thy enemies have made a noise. . . . They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people. . . . They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation, and let the name of Israel (America) be remembered no more. For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant (League of Nations) against thee...
...diplomacy, if there be such a thing, is not embodied in the League of Nations, despite the rantings of Hearst and Coughlin. Nor is it to be discovered in treaties which will be made public only in autobiographies and memoirs published many years hence. For public opinion--always the weightiest imponderable in democratic nations--will not countenance a return to the devious methods of pre-war Europe. If the recent London Naval conversations, and the talks now in progress between France and England, have any significance, it is the clear manifestation of an attempt to achieve real understanding between...
...join the World Court, certain facts stand out with ironical clarity. It is important to realize that the Resolution was defeated primarily because of the astonishingly effective propaganda aroused over the short space of one week-end by those two staunch protectors of one hundred per cent Americanism, Father Coughlin and the Hearst papers. "Joining the court," said the former, "to maintain peace strongly stinks of diplomatic deceit." He was aided no end by the latters' publishing the pictures of Great American Statesmen, accompanied by the question, "Senators, have you forgotten these...
...regarding international matters. That such opinion is guided by the pernicious nationalism of the Hearst syndicate has been fully demonstrated. There is little hope for international peace until the American people are shown that the greatest obstacle to understanding and accord is the irrational emotionalism of Mesars. Hearst and Coughlin...