Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-02
Wallace Put
Finger on
PeqIer Here
'Midfet Hitler Believed
Aimed al Writer

Aimed al Writer
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
II. 1888, when Frank Knox
was still free 10 speak his
mind he wrote a book called
we Planned II That Way. the
title being a pat phrase which
President Roosevelt had used IN
claiming for ms first New Deal
full credit for the monetary
economic rally Of the nation
which had quickly been put
down.
In this work Mr.. Knox dis
CuSSed. among other matters,
the New Deals propaganda
services, paid for our Of the
peoples taxes, which had for
their purpose the glorIficatlon
OF the personalities and policies
of the administration and the
abuse Of business and those in
dlvldualS in business who had
the patriotic tcmcritY 10 raise
a political opposition
Mr.. Knox, now secretary OF
the navy. perceived that this
propaganda machine, since eX-
pandcd into an international
outfit. was similar 10 those of
MuSSolini. Hitler and Stain and
developed his argument at con-
siderable length
THERE were New Deal prop
Il uganda agencies in all As
states, he wrote, whose pur-
pose was 10 spread the message
of the New Deal and the Presl-
dent and TO report TO Washing
ton any hostile or suspicious
movement among the citizens.
If any prominent person Criti-
-efEed ifa Hdfiftfft>t II ton. he aid -
that person would presently be
called before a congressional
committee for investigation.
publicly caStigated by some
o b q lent office holder or
harasSed by the internal revenue
in some fax matter
Or, possibly all three Of these
puniShmentS would he visited
on hun Even if the citizens
tax returns were in good order
the uSual~cffeCt was to brighten
HIM into future silence by the
very bclligerencc of the treas
ury'S Investigators.
LIE THEN observed that The
H dissemination of propaganda
clarifying the party in power at
the peoples expense was the
technique of the Communists.
the NaziS and -FaScistS. and
charged that the New Deals
machine had been created in
open contempt for laws forbid
ding such use of the peoples
money
President Roosevelt Mr. Knox
believed in 1888. had taken the
country far along the path Of
socialism leading straight 10
communism, naZlSm and faSciSm
and he was explicit on the point
that he no longer believed, as
ne once had believed that all
this was the work of ihconSplc-
uouS planners who were taking
advantage or The President.
He said Mr. Roosevelt himself
was responsible for the New
Deal and that his objective was
ono-man government
Indeed. his very reason for
writing his little book was that
he. Mr.. Knox. still believed in
the traditional American de-
mocracy and had become con-
WINGED by his acts that the
President did not believe in it.
4 S THAT was his reason for
"A writing the book. so it is
my reason for citing from this
and other works Of men who
have shown heXond challenge
their ferociouS dcteStation of
faSciSm and its equivalent, COM
munlSm. I'm running reply 10
tho new and daily more bold
and ClamorOuS New Deal prOpa-.
Canda which wout q identity
with the enemy and as Amerl-
can FaSciStS. all who have
fought the New Deals extension
Of its power over the people and
property
| have observed this in>idiouS
adoption. in the guiSc of social
and economic reforms. Of meas
ures and methods which MuSSo-
lni borrowed from his former
Communist comrades and called
fasciSm and which Hitler in
turn borrowed from the bum
and called National Socialism
For tracing the parallel I
have been hammered persist
emily by organizations and indi-
vidualS processing 10 believe IN
democracy.
I BELIEVE, too that Henry
Il Wallace. the vice president.
meant me when he smoke last
SUNDAY Of midget lIitlcrS who