The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12

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 United States be- fore this country got into the war it is hard to trace because money tends to lose its identity in passing from hand to hand. But even If the downfall of Hitler means the end of the Nazi party, there is no as- surance that the source of funds will dry up, for right within Amer ica means have apparently been found to continue the publication of millions of copies of tracts pamphlets, direct mail pieces, ver- min weekly newspapers and slick paper monthly magazines. Individ- ually, the mailing lists may cover only a few thousand names. Col lectively, they cover millions ot readers and the poison they preach is apparently not without its effects The stuff gets circulated around, is repeated by word of mouth from person to person, and on the gullible and susceptible, it eventually takes hold. It Itpreaches line of hate Brit ain, hate Russia, hate international world JeWry, race hatred within the United States. It takes advantage of every weakness on the home front, in the rationing program, food shortages, to preach that these war time developments are part of a deliberate plot to cause revolution in the United States, permit the overthrow of the existing constitu- tional government and the seizure of power by the internationalists. It is utterly fantastic claptrap There is nothing new about it. It is an old story, and as such it has been dis missed from the mind as a worry by most people. But the mere fact that it has been dismissed has per- mitted it to flourish unobserved, while public attention has been cen tered on other, more dramatic de- velopments of the war.
 FEW BATTLE
 PROPAGANDA
 The battlers against this domes- tic propaganda are relatively few, There is no one in Congress cru sading seems to be on the other side Through all the Literature" printed and distributed in the United States today, there is an undercurrent of isolationism disguised as national ism, and from time to time these papers, magazines, pamphlets, news letters, circulars and mailing pieces point to the leadership of Senators Burton K. Wheeler of Butte, Mont, Gerald P Nye of Cooperstown, N. Dak., Representative Hamilton Fish of Duchess County, N. Y, Glare E. Hoffman of Allegan, Mich, and Paul w. Shafer of Battle Creek, Mich.
 CongressWoman Jeanette Rankin, who voted against the United States declarations of war in both 1917 and l941, was defeated for reelection in 1942 but her farewell speech in which she charged that Pearl liar bor was the direct result of Roose- velt- Churchill agreement to bring this country into the war, is still being circulated, sometimes under the postal franking privilege of an isolationiSt minded congressman. Whatever the motives-Whether a sincere effort to keep the United States out of postwar international alliances or to stir up racial preju- dice or to embarrasS the admins tration for political purposes - the result of all these activities is the promotion of anti-war sentiment in America, the stirring up of internal dissension to interfere with the war effort.
 CRUSADERS LAUDED
 Only a few crusaders have con- tinued to fight Nazi propaganda in the United States since Pearl liar bor. billiard Stokes, Washington Post reporter who uncovered much of the dirt on the activities of George Hill, Ham Fish's secretary, is now in service.
 L. M. Birkhead of Kansas City, Mo, still carries on, but his efforts aren't as well known as they should be. Visiting Germany in 1885, he CdlIlC CtldCilIC biiab lNdLl Oi ganizations were directing propa- ganda in the United States On a card index of names Of these propa- gandists, Birkhead found many he knew. He returned to the United States to organize his Friends of Democracy" which since 1887 has been exposing the activities of the Gerald Winrods, the Gerald L. K. Smiths, the Father Coughlins and the rest Of the tribe. He Is still at | 1t.
 Second spark plug of the anti Nazi line in America is Henry Hoke Of New York. editor and publisher of a direct mail advertising trade paper. More than three years ago. Hoke discovered that the United States malls were being corrupted with tons of Hitler propaganda. To save direct mail advertising, Hoke set out on a crusade to clean up the business. Though hts job now is to promote war campaigns through the graphic arts industries. Hoke still encounters evidences that the Hit Ter party line is still being followed and he, too. Is continuing his cru- sade to stamp 1t out.
 John Carlson's new book, Under Cover" which is fast becoming s best seller. goes into the past and present of the whole nasty business and will probably do more good to wake people up to sec what goes on than anything achieved thus far.
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