The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02

off-the-road house. Chapman was
unusually .all, with small head
and delicate features His face had
the look of studious laboratory
worker. "A moment later he told
me he was taking courses at the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology.
Chapman was unwilling to talk.
When I tried 70 make an appoint
ment to see him the next day, he
said: One of my friends has got
into trouble. lie was framed, of
course. But I don + want to see
anyone or do anything else until
I settle this matter. They can east
ly get something on you nova
days.
Chapman's background was ia
miliar to me. An extremely clever
operator for the Goebbels' cause,
Chapman was the n n behind
Mrs. Fry: he gave the orders and
had charge of the funds. He had
many contacts high in the Nazi
Ministry of Propaganda and was
involved in the abortive American
Nazi putsch engineered by Consul
Manfred Won Killinger. He used
the alias Warren Weston, but never
associated publicly with k n W n
members of the Bund Silver Shirts
and other pro-Nazi groups on the
coast many of which he guided
through his lieutenants: Mrs. Fry,
Henry D. Allen ane Ivan CORN.
When Allen was suEpoenaed to ap-
pear before the Dies Committee,
he turned over more than 1000
letters discriminating notorious Nazi
operatives in America and many
Of the letters involved Chapman.
found Boston seethjng with anti
Semitism, defeatisnl d rumor
mongering. Evidence of Christian
Front and Cougbllnite activity was
rife. The fascist spirit had per-
meated The "cradle of American
Liberty" 1t had even penetrated
the American Legion. made it
point to interview William F.
Campbell, Commander of the Nor
folk County Post, who had circu-
lated widely the Vicious anti-Se-
mite charge that "the situation
of draft-dodging has become so
fragrant, that large numbers of a
certain racial group are coming
from New York to this section
where they are getting defense
jobs and keeping out of the draft. -
Legionnaire CampbelPs rumor
mongering was merely another
tongue of flame from Boston's ma
tive fascist fires. I predict that
unless it is curbed, Boston's cler-
ical-fascist stencil will some day
cause national nausea. Even now
Hitler has much to be proud of
in Boston:
At Daddy's and Jacks Novelty
Shop on Bronfield street, I found
that with every dollars worth of
goods you received a handful of
anti-Semitic poison.
John Joseph Murphy, publisher
Of Save America Now, Boston
edition of Social Justice, boosted
that he had been the first man in
the country to raise the cry of
impeaching the President.
Yes, sir, I was first-back in
1897
Murphy had been a leading light
N the America First Committee,
and regarded Father Coughlin as
a Sterling American, the finest
man America has produced" He
dedicated an issue of Save Amer
lea Now to the Reverend Curran,
Coughlin's agent in the East and
had used regular Social Justice
channels of distribution.
Il was never a member of the
Christian Front here, but I spoke
tor Them" Murphy said. IT know
Moran and like him very we'll"
We're you in sympathy with the
Christian Front principles?" l ask
ed
with its program of American
Ism, yes. But they also had rad
zeal program. I wasn't for that.
l was strictly for their Constitu-
tional Methods"
l turned to Francis P. Moran,
1uehrer of the New England Chris
tan Front. A black sign on the
door OF his office read: "Sociologi-
cal Research Inside, a discol-
ored American flag dropped in the
corner. Small cubicles were stuff
cd With the poison tracts of Ed
monoson, Stahrenberg, True, Sane
tuary. Policy. A stack of joseph
r: Ramps The Fifth Column in
washington was laid next to pile
OF leaflets from the American Co.
ANTON OF Patriotic Societies. Cop
les OF Social Justice rested above
the folds of the Deutscher Week
1uf. On the wall was the emblem
Of the Christian Front.
Moran sat at the desk +ioh4-
Hpped' coarse-textured, fanatic. He
represented a new type of Chris
tan type front fuehrer. He neither
gushed out with 'Christianity'' nor
old he heap abuse on the Jew
He was a calculating and cold
olooded propaganda of the Bund s
Gerhard Kunze type. When told
him that I belonged to the Chris
tian MobiliZers he sneered 1ooL-