The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-23
Under Cover
BY JOHN ROY CARLSON

[n~ns to Abuse; Unity Of Psyche
'anical Front Myth Even Aftel
'os Pearl Harbor
CHAPTER Is
Shortly after our entry into the
~ Robert Noble, Ellis o. Jone:
Wa Herman D. Kissinger were ar
e as.ed hv F. B. l. agents for al
iesed seditious utterance," and g
w. weeks later were suddenly ex
lS rorated with the official state.
. ra free speech as such ought
i'-t to be restricted. It was obvi.
iUS the Department of Justice had
w.t. uot vet formulated an official pol
ilo regarding sedition.
~ attorney General Francis Biddle
.donted the democratic view that
@ o1e this time every reasonable at.
.I,,nt should be made to maintain
18th 18th free speech and public safety,
wa that freedom OF speech should
a. sl+I cr,ltailed only when public safe
=, is directly imperiled.
" Americas enemies within
.,is az blanket permission to re.
snne the work only temporarily
'vterrllpted by Pearl Harbor, and
~fter the disarmament of the Amer
H 'na First Committe. Ellis o.
1 lanes wrote me exultantly: 1--WE
AVE already arranged to resume
r'eeklv meetings. We have a lot
oe IDEAS. are not in any way ter
ritied and will not pull our punch
Riddle amt a bad guy after
~ heard my friends" say.
Rrt few months later-when
Attorney General Biddle cracked
aown on those who had abused
the privilege granted them under
democracy-he was vilified Bit
terly. ,o.,
,arv 1912 the Bill of Rights was
beiled as Justify as had been the
swastika at Bund rallies. 1t be-
came the wedge by which Amer
icas enemies converted liberty in
IN license: and freedom of speech
into freedom to propagate defeat
;sm anti-Semitism. appeasement,
d,strust of the national leadership.
mdscrninate Red-baiting, n l.
British propaganda. and the defa-
,oation Of Democracy as way
of life. For from ending subve1-
slve action the VAL merely served
e signal for redoubled effort
for another Pearl Harbor attack
on the psychologist cal front a. nome.
Lip service was rendered to pla-
cate the Department Of Justice.
and satisfy the technicalities of
law. while about sabotage w s
AIMED at national morle. That
become the wartime party line"
Of former America First-ers. Bund-
lists, Christian Frontiers, Mobiliz-
ers and followers of various shirt
movements. Pe'ley took the init
stive and blanketed the nation with
confidential wartime bulletins:
This war is quite all right! 1t
rs going to work the economic and
social miracles that never could
have been otherwise. and all of
Us are going to be a personal part
OF them. Get over your dol
drums if you have them.
Hitler's friends took heart. Some
Of them became SO bold that they
lost all semblance of decency.
George w. Christians sent out a
series Of leaflets threatening vio-
lence:
When the mad mob gets in mo-
ton make sure that they dig all
OF The blood-sucking banksters out
rom under theil piles of rock and
S'ee'' Line them up against wall
arc shoot them.
those Coughlinites who had sus-
iPhded individual activity in order
:, lom effort with the America
lTSt Committee. now went back
10 their individual cells and set
P SHOP to do business precisely
IS before. In the name of post
Fear Harbor ''patriotisno' they
ADDED % the worries of nation
modifying for war.
Mrs Agnes Waters, professions
d mother from Washington, brand.
ca sugar-rationine as q Jewish plot
70 "Communize America - Warm.
l'-s up TO her subject, she screech.
I'd; There are 100000 Communist
Jews at the Mexican border wait.
ing 10 get into this country. If they
are admitted they viii cape every
woman and child that is left un.
protected"
MRS. Mary Tappendorf of the
Uua-patriotic Chicago Mothers be-
c1me greatly excited over the
y! p!an to raise women's army aux
maIy Tor war duty. What do the,
I mSne 10 do with girls in the from
mes! She demanded. 'T'll tel