The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-27
JJN-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA
AGAINST IRISH-AMERICANS

A nazi propaganda offensive is now
under way in Ireland and among Irish
Americans in the United States. While
the majority Of the Irish people and
Irish-Americans, in particular, repudi-
ate this propaganda, small minority
of IRA terrorists in Ireland and pro-
fessional Irish Nationalist" in Amer
lea have succumbed to it. Boston,
Philadelphia and New York are cen
tiers of this Nazi-Irish agitation which
is being carried on in collaboration
with the Christian Front. Masking
sedition under false religious and Irish
national slogans, the Christian Front
propagandists are seeking to sabotage
the morale of the large and influen-
tial Irish-American community in the
United States.
Success to Social Justice
Aiding and abbeting this propagan-
da campaign is The Gaelic American,
a weekly newspaper edited by James
MacDermott and published at 165 Will
liam street in New York City. Pur-
portedly devoted ito the cause of
Irish freedom" this newspaper is be-
ing regularly distributed by members
of the Christian Front, and is gener
ally regarded in these subversive cir
cles as the successor to Father Cough
Inns seditius publication, Social JUS
tice, now barred from the U. S. mails.
Father Coughlin's ally and close
friend, Father Edward Lodge Curran,
'the Eastern representative of the
Christian Front" has been for some
time The Gaelic Americans leading
editorial columnist.
The editorial pages and news-items
in The Gaelic American violently as
sail Americas allies in language
strongly reminiscent of the official
nazi propaganda which has been
spread among Irish-Americans. The
newspaper also persistently attacks
such outstanding wartime leaders and
anti-axis spokesman as Vice Presi-
dent Wallace and Wendell Willkie,
and continuously snipes at President
Roosevelt. On the other hand, such
propagandists as Father
ly defended. The recent department
Of justice indictment of twenty-eight
persons on charges of seeking to
sabotage the morale of the United
States armed forces was attacked in
the pages of The Gaelic American as
an administration smear campaign
against Christian" American patri-
DTS.
Racist Agitation
Echoing the propaganda sent out |
by Theodore Kessemeir, director of |
he official nazi agency Deutsche |
who is in charge of nazi |
propaganda among Irish-American, /
The Gaelic American invariably refers
o the Irish people as the Irish race;
md declares that the Catholic Irish
race" is opposed to the Jewish
race" which is identified with com
nunism."
A typical, scurrillous Gaelic Amer
can headline, from the October II
ssue, reads: "Reds Hate Coughlin-
Priest Victim of Smear as Fake Irish
md Yiddish Leaders Wildly Denounce
lin" The October issue promi-
lently featured a vicious piece of anti
Semitic agitation under the heading
Freedom of Religion, written by
Daniel Downing. Alleging that the
Exposes of Coughlin and his associate
Jurran which have appeared in the
Jew York Post, PM and other news {
apers are part of Jewish Commun-
st plot, the Gaelic American writer !
tates:
1T must be borne in mind that l
the main objective of this move
ment by communist publications 6
and influential Rabbits is not to eff t
feet the destruction of the two
priests mentioned (Coughlin and t
Curran), but rather to effect the |
destruction of the Christian religion /
itself" t