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

Ter, even to the organized eangs
OF strong-arm men.
When the low rumble of drum,
negan to sound from the Shrine of
me Little Flower, the Christian
ront throughout tn country fell
IN step. Jack Cassidy became most
Wldely known because of the pub.
lclty he received as fuehrer of the
Sports Club" an ultra-revolution.
airy gun club founded within the
framework of the Christian Front.
1t is a matter of record that the
first unit of the Front held meet
lngs in the Rectory of the Paulist
Fathers, and that application
blanks were printed by the Paulist
Press. Mail was received at a
post office, registered in the name
OF the Paulist Fathers. Walter Og-
den, a worker at the Rectory, be-
came the first executive secretary.
The Fathers probably thought they
were encouraging group dedi-
Gated to the propagation Of Chris
tianity.' AS soon as they learned
its true nature they severed all
connections and Reverend Edward
Burke, esp who had served as
advisor, was transferred to anoth-
er parish.
Father Coughlin continued to in
spire and direct tn lncipient fas-
cist movement. Its units function
ed independently and in secret;
only the unit leaders were aware
of the plans of the others. By the
fall of 1889 there were Front units
in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Bos-
ton, Minneapolis, St. Louis. Detroit
and numerous smaller cities.
Like Hitler's Brownshirts, t n Ell
Christian Front was ostensibly Or
ganized to combat the rising tide
of Communism. All Jews were
called Communists. All liberals,
New Dealers and labor organida-
tons were called Communist; and
since the Communist Revolution in
America was scheduled to t k e
place ANY day now" the Chris
tan Front shouted that private
army was the only means to save
America"
The record shows that while Mon
signor Fulton J. Sheen, outstand-
ing Catholic spokesman said: Hit
Ter would destroy Christianity all
over the world, if he could" Fa-
Their Coughlin filled the pages OF
Social Justice with Hitler's sewer
spawned lies. He made direct use
of Goebbels' speeches, quoting the
Nazi almost word fc1 word. He
quoted widely from World Service
and numerous other Nazi organs
and their American imitators. He
denounced the ''poppycock of De-
mocracy' and branded Democracy
as a version of Communism and
Communism as an invention OF the
Jews.
THE German hero in America
for the moment is the Reverend
Charles E. Coughlin.' cabled Otto
D. Tolischus to The New Y or k
Times. And Silver Shirter Pelley
wrote in Liberation. This past
week the aggressive Father Cough
lin went on the air ana dellv-
cred what amounted to the prize
Silver Shirt speech of the year.
Boosting that his Sixteen Prlncl-
pies of Social Justice" had all been
adopted by the Nazi and Italian
fascist parties, the would-be rev.
erend-dictator tried to folst his
clerical fascist plans on America
by organizing theNational Union
for Social Justice. One William
Lemke was candidate for presl-
dent.
In the sphere of Christian re-
lligion Father Coughlin injected the
contemptibly un-Amer1can issue OF
racilism. By his rash and violent
utterances he provoked an increas-
ing wave of anti-Catholic SENT
ment throughout the country, espe-
cially among those who unjustly
saw in him amirror of the entire