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...stations which had refused similar programs in the belief they were lotteries-and from cinema exhibitors who were losing customers on Tuesday nights. Last week FCC did something drastic-sounding about Pot o' Gold: handed the whole file of complaints over to the Department of Justice, got the G-Men started on the radio rainbow's trail...
...Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary (chairman of the Council)-and a couple of sure-enough fellow travelers, Methodist Rev. Dr. Harry Frederick Ward and Episcopalian Rev. William Benjamin ("Bill") Spofford. One William Ball, leader of Cleveland's Young Americanist League, fee-fi-fo-fummed for the G-Men to investigate this "Red Christian Front." An officious "Director of Americanism" of the American Legion announced: "What we want to do is to make sure that the good American churchmen and other citizens attending these meetings will be on guard so that no un-American motions or resolutions will come...
...chief of the G-Men, John Edgar Hoover, is an author of no mean capacity. Prolific Mr. Hoover's plots, as he purveys them in magazine articles, on the radio, on public platforms, generally have to do with intrigue, kidnappers, back-room dictators, disaffected aliens, furtive agents conniving against the U. S. Government...
Only trouble with this plot was that few pulp editors would offend their read ers with such horrendous fantasy. Mr. Hoover's answer to that one: it was no fantasy at all. Last weekend he and his G-Men rounded up the 18, jailed them in Manhattan, charged them with conspiracy against the U. S. Government. Chief among their prisoners were two active Christian Fronters, John F. Cassidy and William Gerald Bishop (whom Belgium and Great Britain had previously de ported). Their affiliations greatly embarrassed Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin, who is forever calling for "a Christian...
John Edgar Hoover last week called upon U. S. patriots to join his G-Men in a holy war: on spies, murderers, foreignisms, burglars, alien-minded mongrels, Utopian praters, saboteurs, subversive lawbreakers of every sort. "Here," cried the chief of FBI, "is a battle between priceless God-fearing principles on the one hand and pagan ideals and godlessness on the other. ... In these troubled days, when you strengthen the hand of law enforcement, you add power to the muscles of liberty. . . ." He added piously, "Our efforts must not develop into a witch hunt...