Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week an anonymous Army officer who signed himself "A Tory" brought dry grins to the doleful face of the G. 0. P. with a 50? pamphlet titled Frankie in Wonderland. Sample paraphrase...
More to the point of Fascist journalism was a scare started last week by Rome's authoritative Messaggero to incite Italians against Jugoslavs, their traditional foes. According to Messaggero imaginative Nazis peppered Jugoslavia in advance of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss' murder with pamphlet maps suggesting that Germany and Jugoslavia should cooperate in arms. A fantastic "Map of Europe in 1935" showed Jugoslavia gorged with Italian and Austrian territory while "Greater Germany" had been so extended as to include Alsace-Lorraine, the Netherlands, parts of Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania and enough of Italy to give Germany...
...Francis Gross, a retired Catholic priest of Perth Amboy, N. J., mopped his thick jowls in the torrid committee room as he told of an anti-Semitic pamphlet he had written called "Justice to Hungary, Germany and Austria." When his printer dunned him. Father Gross wrote him that none other than the Reich's Ambassador at Washington, Dr. Hans Luther, was his "sponsor, financial backer and promoter.'' The German Embassy, said Father Gross, had purchased 100 copies of his pamphlets at 70? each. The German Embassy retorted: ''It goes without saying that the German Ambassador...
...Committee, formed to protest the tactics of the police in the demonstration at Charlestown, has been engaged in arranging a formal protest to state officials but results of their work so far have not as yet been revealed. The Committee was impressed with the sale of the pamphlet which appeared a week ago and which has sold rapidly since then...
...Eugene G. Hultman and Superintendent Martin H. King is recommened by the committee, unless they "can show that they are in no way connected with the orders" given to the police. Continuing with a description of the kicking and slugging of the police, based upon the appended affidavits, the pamphlet ends with a letter from Commissioner Hultman denying he had received any evidence indicating "unnecessary force on the part of the officers...