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Your smear of Joseph P. Kamp was particularly vicious and uncalled for. A more patriotic American could never be found...
Another kind of smear comes in a 16-page pamphlet, Headlines and What's Behind Them ("for students, writers and speakers"). A streamer on the front page blares the message: REDS, NEW DEALERS USE IKE IN PLOT TO HOLD POWER. Behind Headlines is pince-nezed Joseph P. Kamp, who edited the Awakener-well-loved by the Nazis-from 1932 until its death in 1936. In 1944 he was cited for contempt of Congress and sentenced (in 1949) to four months in prison. Kamp's touch is far from subtle: he fans anti-Semitic feelings by picturing prominent Jews...
Harder & Lower. Kamp's enthusiastic admirer, Gerald L. K. Smith, hits even harder and lower. In his The Cross & The Flag, Smith writes: "A dispatch out of London reveals that the leading Jewish paper [unnamed] of that city now admits that Eisenhower is a Jew." Smith's Patriotic Tract Society distributes scurrilous anti-Ike ammunition from a St. Louis post-office-box address. Prize offering (25 copies for $1): a photostat of a page in the 1915 Howitzer, the U.S. Military Academy yearbook, in which Cadet Dwight David Eisenhower was called "the terrible Swedish...
Other targets of Hall's speech were Gerald L. K. Smith's Christian Nationalist Crusade, Joseph Kamp's Constitutional League, Conde McGinley's Commonsense, and Merwin K. Hart's National Economic Council...
...Steele, Carlson sent him a copy of his bogus anti-Semitic hate sheet, the "Christian Defender", which never failed to gain him entry into fascist circles. And sure enough, "Steele . . . received me cordially and we became quite friendly, for I know quite a few of the boys Joseph P. Kamp, for instance, with whom Steele had worked closely. And James, True and Elizabeth Dilling, and John Snow...