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SANTA MONICA, CALIF. -- Cigar-smoking Eugene Talmadge, vacationing here after his recent nomination as Governor of Georgia, took a tolerant view of Ku Klux Klan activities today...
...Mencken, 65, lord high lambaster of the '20s, had a visit from Columnist Ward Morehouse and impersonated his old self. Nostalgic excerpts from the interview: "People are in a state of imbecility. The country is a wreck. . . . The United Nations has no more chance than the Ku Klux Klan would have in the Vatican...
Before the war criminals have been tried, and while America preaches its doctrines of democracy to a war-weary world . . . the Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta, Ga. can advertise publicly, attract a crowd of 2,000, and gain 500 new initiates [TIME, May 20]. How can the fiery cross be considered in any other light than as a home-grown swastika, when it stands for the promotion of racial supremacy...
...night-shrouded field north of Los Angeles a cross burned red. The wartime shortage of sheets and bigotry was lifting. The postwar Ku Klux Klan, already on the march in the South (TIME, May 20) was on the loose again in southern California...
Atlanta, before the war, was headquarters for a profitable national business in hocus-pocus for race-prejudiced joiners: the Ku Klux Klan. Since the war, it has been no secret in Georgia that the Klan was trying to come back in a big way. In the past eight months there have been cross-burnings atop Stone Mountain. But secrecy is a part of the Klan's appeal-and the Kluxers kept their affairs to themselves...