THE
April S. 1942
Strong Measures to be Taken by U.S.
To Denaturalize Disloyal Aliens; Plan
Indictment of the Pro-Axis Magazines
Investigation Begun By President's Committee Of Race U. S. WARNS OF NAZI PLAN
Discrimination In War Plants; Pelley Suspends Publication TO "DIVIDE AND CONQUER"
Hate, confusion, suspicion and
Of His Anti-Semetic Sheet "The Galilean"
WASHINGTON (JPS)—That strong measures will
be taken to halt the flood of pro-Axis, anti-Semitic publica-
tions and that aliens disloyal to the United States will be
denaturalized was stated by Attorney General Francis
Biddle at a press conference here.
Stressing that the Department of Justice is ready to
act immediately to denaturalize all y
foreign-born citizens who are mem- ✓known for his attacks on President
bers of such organizations as the
Roosevelt and on Jews, Fahl. of
German-American Bund, the At-
torney General also said that the Denver, has been described as "100
Justice Department will bring in- per cent for Hitler."
dictments for sedition against a
The Department of Justice is
number of the worst pro-Axis, anti- carefully scrutinizing all pro-Fascist
Semitic publications in America.
and pro-Axis publications with a
Mr. Biddle asserted that denatur- view to determining what action
alization action will be taken soon can be taken against them to re-
against thirty-five or more out- move them from the field.
standing pro-Axis citizens. "Hund-
The interlocking of anti-Semitic
reds more" of cases are in pros- and anti-American agents was fur-
said.
"We
are
now
ready
he
pect.
ther highlighted when Ralph Town-
to shoot and we are going to shoot send, assistant editor of the anti-
very quickly.• he stated.
Semitic Scribner's Commentator,
Launching the war against
"subversive agents" which he had
previeusly premised. Attorney
General Biddle has ordered Unit-
ed States attorneys to proceed
with action against George W.
Christians, organiser of the Cru-
sader White Shirts. and Rudolph
Fah!, both native-born Ameri-
cans, who are both charged with
sabotaging the morale of the
country and playing" into the
hands of the Axis.
The Chattanooga U. S. attorney
will proceed against Christians,
pleaded guilty here to a charge of
failing to register as an agent of
Japan. The charge was similar to
that under which George Sylvester
Viereck was sentenced.
In Los Angeles note was taken of
the speech made by anti-Semitic
Robert Noble, leader of an organiza-
tion calling itself Friends of Prog-
ress who, in testifying before a
State Assembly committee investi-
gating un-American activities, ad-
mitted that he had referred to "this
phoney general." Douglas Mac-
Arthur.
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JEWISH NEWS
distortion are amcrig the weapons
which the Nazis are using to under-
mine the morale of Americans, as
part of their technique to "divide
and conquer," the people of Amer-
ica are warned in a pamphlet being
distributed to the nation by the Of-
fice of Facts and Figures. headed by
Archibald MacLeish.
"Mein Kamph," anti - Semitic
source of ?Iitler's creed of world
power, is cited for its doctrine that
the masses "are more easily vic-
timized by a large than by a small
lie."
COUGHLIN'S "CHARGE"
Pointing out that membership in
or close connection with the Bund
constitutes. a connection with a
"German agent," he admitted that
it is unconstitutional to revoke
citizenship of American-born Bund-
ists, but asserted that action will
be taken against them on different
grounds.
PROBATE COURT
WAYMC COVMTY WICMIGAN
DISTROLT
Karr
D. J. HEALY
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JUDI.
J4JVIMILIC
Mr. Philip Slomovits
Fditcr
The Jewish News
Detroit, Michigan
Dear Mr. Slomovits:
Permit as to add my sincere wishes for
the success of the Jewish News. I know personally many
of the men that make up your Board cf Directors and your
Community Advisory Board and believe in their sincerity
to carry cut the ideals rhich they have set forth for this
publication.
The City of Detroit whose population is
a mixture of so may racial and nationality groups should
truly wcicome a newspaper ',hose aim you so aptly state,
•the sacred community responsibility of establishing the
most friendly interdenominational relations, of advancing
the Good Neighbor policy between Jews and non-Jews, of
establishing the type of relations which serve to build a
Aholesome American life based on interwfaith cooperation. •
Nay your newspaper life be long and
honorable.
the
The Attorney General's statement
that pro-Axis papers will be indict-
ed for sedition did not clarify which
publications the Justice Department
was proceeding against. but- it came
in response to a question concern-
ing what action might be contemp-
lated against magazines like Cough-
lin's Social Justice and William
Dudley Pelly's "The Galilean."
Coughlin's Social Justice, antici-
pating Biddle's move, laid the blame
on the Jews in charasteristic fash-
ion. The March 30 issue of the anti-
Semitic sheet blared in a two-inch
D.J. KEkLY
Judge of Probete
Juvenile Division
headline: "Jews Plot to Ban Social
Justice."
PELLY SUSPENDS SHEET
Boasting that he would never be
jailed, but declaring that he would
suspend his anti-Semitic periodicals
"until conditions are more auspi-
cious," William Dudley Pelley, anti-
Semitic Silver Shirter now out on
bail pending appeal of a two-year
jail sentence. announced that he
would henceforth devote himself
to "esoteric" religious tracts, choos-
ing not to submit copy for The
Galilean in advance of publication,
to the authorities here, as ordered.
It was learned. however, that
Pelley's new activities by no means
exclude his pro-Axis work. Having
violated the North Carolina secu-
rities law, the sentenced Fascist
wrote to his subscribers: "Never
mind particularly about the Galli-
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