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...Pelley, goat-bearded author, publisher, mystic, founder of the Silvershirt Legion of America, had quite an experience. The way he tells it, he died and went to eternity for seven minutes. The following year he was "inspirationally instructed" that "when a certain young house painter comes to the head of the German people, then do you take that as your time symbol for bringing . . . the Christian Militia into the open...
Everybody guessed who was back of this clandestine, unmistakably Fascist publication: the goateed, vitriolic leader of the Hitler-aping Silvershirt Legion of America, investigated last year by the Dies Committee, William Dudley Pelley...
When Newsman Hudler turned him down two months ago, Losey bought an abandoned box factory on the outskirts of Noblesville, started the Fellowship Press. From Asheville, N. C., he imported presses on which Fascist Pelley used to turn out his defunct Silvershirt organ, Liberation. He denied that Pelley had any connection with Fellowship Press, later admitted that he would publish Pelley's treatise on "metaphysics and esoterics...
Lots of people have said sharp things about the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities. Few have been more vitriolic than goat-bearded William Dudley Pelley, leader of The Silvershirt Legion of America. Last June, one of the Committee's investigators, Robert B. Barker, investigated his nation-saving activities and reported back that Pelley was just the Committee's dish. With its sizzling frying pan all ready for Pelley, the Committee tossed out a line and hook to catch him. But Mr. Pelley dived for deeper water, and disappeared...
Acting Chairman Starnes, banging his gavel, choked: "We don't want this record cluttered up either with praise or condemnation." finally released the Silvershirt leader with the curt statement: "The Committee is through with...