Word: moseleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--Retired Maj. Gen. George Van Horne Moseley today ended his testimony before the House committee on un-American activities after several heated clashes with members who subsequently ordered his prepared statement on yorld Jewry deleted from the committee record...
...Moseley, who urged that the right to vote and hold office be denied American Jews affiliating themselves with organized word Jewry, earlier expressed suspicion of drinking water provided by the committee, saying that he does not trust the group "too far" and adding that previous threats on his life have made him extremely cautious...
...Hitleresque mustache who calls himself "national commander of the Knights of the White Camellia." Messrs. Campbell and Deatherage decided to set up a sort of Hitler to whom they would play Göring and Goebbels. For their Führer they chose sympathetic Major General George Van Horn Moseley, who retired as commander of the U. S. Army's Fourth Corps Area last year with a blast against the New Deal, followed up with frightening speeches about the dastardly Jews, warnings that the time might come when the Army would have to "take over." General Moseley had started...
...rasped at Franklin Roosevelt for putting Felix Frankfurter on the U. S. Supreme Court; 4) predicted that the U. S. Army would "demur" if ordered by a leftist Administration "to execute orders which violate all American tradition"; 5) suggested that patrioteers be deputized and trained to handle "emergencies." Strongest Moseley statement: Fascism and Naziism are good "antitoxins" for the U. S.; "in fact, the finest type of Americanism can breed under their protection as they neutralize the efforts of the Communists...
Several uniformed war veterans walked out in disgust during the speech. Said the American Legion's Pennsylvania Commander Frank E. Gwynn afterwards: "This man . . . mistakes freedom for license. . . . The Moseleys most certainly must be kept from poisoning the minds of America's youth, from organizing the army which Moseley advocated for the overthrow of the Government...