George Van Horn Moseley George Van Horn Moseley ( September 28 , 1874 – November 7 , 1960 ) was a United States Army general . Following his retirement in 1938 , he became controversial for his anti - immigrant and anti - Semitic views . Biography . Moseley was born in Evanston , Illinois , on September 28 , 1874 . He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1899 and was commissioned second lieutenant in the cavalry . He served in the Philippines twice , from 1900 to 1903 and 1906 to 1907 , where his assignments included commanding a troop of the 1st Cavalry and serving as Aide - de - Camp to Generals J . M . Bell and J . M . Lee . In 1901 Moseley , accompanied by only one other officer , without escort and under conditions of great danger , penetrated a major Philippine insurgent stronghold . 2nd Lt . Moseby and st Lt . George Curry convinced Brigadier General Ludovico Arejola to sign the peace agreement in Taban , Minalabac ( Philippines ) on 25 March 1901 . The honor graduate of the Army School of the Line in 1908 , he also graduated from the Army Staff College in 1909 and the Army War College in 1911 . Moseley married Mrs . Florence DuBois in July 1930 . He held camp and Washington assignments from 1920 - 1929 . He was the executive for the Assistant Secretary of War , 1929 – 30 , Deputy Chief of Staff of Army , 1930 – 33 . He served as General Douglas MacArthur ' s Deputy Chief of Staff during the 1932 Bonus March on Washington , D . C . , in the course of which he recorded his fears of a Communist conspiracy against the United States and his identification of Jews with radicals and undesirables . He wrote in a private letter : In 1934 , he asked MacArthur to consider the immigration issue in terms of military manpower , contrasting a group of " southern lads " of " good Anglo - Saxon stock " with their counterparts from the North with names " difficult to pronounce " that " indicated foreign blood " . Moseley linked the latter to labor problems and " so much trouble in our schools and colleges . " MacArthur expressed skepticism in response to Moseley ' s argument that " It is a question of whether or not the old blood that built this fine nation . . . is to continue to administer that nation , or whether that old stock is going to be destroyed or bred out by a lot of foreign blood which the melting pot has not touched . " He was Commanding General of the 5th Corps Area , 1933 – 34 , 4th Corps Area , 1934 – 38 , and the Third United States Army , 1936 - 38 . He was a member of several important commissions , including the Harbord Commission to investigate Armenia n issues . After commanding the Second Field Artillery Brigade , in 1921 he was detailed as assistant to General Dawes in organizing the newly created Bureau of the Budget . In 1921 he was promoted brigadier general , Regular Army . Commanding the 1st Cavalry Division ( 1927 – 1929 ) , he successfully interceded , under fire , with principals in a 1929 Mexican insurrection . His actions stopped stray gunfire from Juarez , Mexico , from endangering life and property in adjacent El Paso , Texas , and precluded further incidents . In 1931 he was promoted major general , Regular Army . Moseley ' s awards included the Distinguished Service Medal ( one oak leaf cluster ) ; Commander , Order of the Crown ( Belgian ) ; Companion , Order of the Bath ( British ) ; Commander , Legion of Honor , and Croix de Guerre with Palm ( French ) ; Commander , Order of the Crown of Italy . While still on active service , Moseley expressed controversial opinions in public . In 1936 , he proposed that the Civilian Conservation Corps be expanded " to take in every 18 - year - old youth in the country for a six - month course in work , education and military training . " In the late 1930s , when admitting refugees from Nazi persecution was a matter of national controversy , Moseley supported admitting refugees but added the proviso that " that they all be sterilized before being permitted to embark . Only that way can we properly protect our future . " Moseley retired in October 1938 with a statement that described the New Deal as a growing dictatorship : " We do not have to vote for a dictatorship to have one in America . . . We have merely to vote increased government responsibility for our individual lives , increased government authority over our daily habits , and the resultant Federal paternalism will inevitably become dictatorship . " Secretary of War Harry Woodring called his statement " flagrantly disployal . " In April 1939 he attacked Jews and said that he foresaw a war fought for their benefit . He attacked President Franklin D . Roosevelt for appointing Felix Frankfurter to the U . S . Supreme Court . He predicted that the U . S . army would not follow the orders of FDR ' s leftist Administration if they " violate all American tradition . " He described fascism and nazism as good " antitoxins " for the United States , adding that " the finest type of Americanism can breed under their protection as they neutralize the efforts of the Communists . " " Time " reported his view that " more money should be spent on syphilis prevention and less on national defense " Two months after leaving the military , he questioned the President ' s proposed increases in military spending : " Much of our present weakness is in the fear and hysteria being engendered among the American people for . . . political purpose . . . A nation so scared and so burdened financially is not in a condition to lick anybody . And then , who in hell are we afraid of ? With Japan absorbed . . . with the balance of power so nearly equal in Europe , where is there an ounce of naval or military strength free to threaten us ? " He became increasingly more outspoken and instead of the language of Social Darwinism expressed anti - Semitic and conspiratorial views overtly . In Philadelphia , he told the National Defense Meeting that Jewish bankers had financed the Russian Revolution and that " The war now proposed is for the purposes of establishing Jewish hegemony throughout the world . " He said that Jews controlled the media and might soon control the federal government . In June 1939 , Moseley testified for five hours before the House Un - American Activities Committee . He said that a Jewish Communist conspiracy was about to seize control of the U . S . government . He believed the President had the authority to counteract the planned coup and could do so " in five minutes " by issuing an order " to discharge every Communist in the government and everyone giving aid and comfort to the Communists . " He said the President could use the army against " the enemy within our gates " but did not seem willing to do so . He said he held no anti - Semitic views and that " the Jew is an internationalist first . . . and a patriot second . " He praised the " impressively patriotic " German - American Bund and said its purpose was to " see that Communists don ' t take over the country . " Among Moseley ' s supporters who attended the hearing were Donald Shea , head of the American Gentile League and James True of America First Inc . The Committee found a prepared statement he read into the record so objectionable it was deleted from the public record . A few days later , Thomas E . Stone , head of the Council of United States Veterans , charged Moseley with treason and wrote that his praise of the Bund " abets a foreign government in the preparation of disruption against the eventuality of possible future hostilities , and that this he is acting in treason to our national safety . " Moseley held anti - immigrant views throughout his life . In his unpublished autobiography , he quoted approvingly from Madison Grant ' s " The Passing of the Great Race " . He used the language of Social Darwinism to describe the problem the United States faced : He described the Jew as a permanent " human outcast . " They were " crude and unclean , animal - like things . . . something loathsome , such as syphilis . " Following the Nazi invasion of France he wrote that in order to match the Nazi threat , the U . S . needed to launch a program of " selective breeding , sterilization , the elimination of the unfit , and the elimination of those types which are inimical to the general welfare of the nation . " In December 1941 , Moseley wrote that Europe ' s Jews were " receiving their just punishment for the crucifixion of Christ . . . whom they are still crucifying at every turn of the road . " He proposed a " worldwide policy which will result in breeding all Jewish blood out of the human race . " In 1947 , he said of his years as a West Point cadet , " there was one Jew in my class , a very undesirable creature , who was soon eliminated . " In 1951 , the president of Piedmont College in Georgia invited Moseley to speak . Students and faculty protested because of his racist views . " TIME " called him a " trumpeter for Aryan supremacy . " One faculty member was fired for speaking in opposition to the speaking engagement . Calls for the president ' s resignation followed . Almost the entire faculty and 9 trustees resigned in the next two years and enrollment fell by two thirds . In 1959 , Moseley was one of the founders of Americans for Constitutional Action , an anti - Semitic successor to America First . In retirement he lived at the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta , Georgia . He died on November 7 , 1960 . Family . Moseley had three sons . Colonel George Van Horn Moseley , Jr . led the 502d Parachute Infantry Regiment into Normandy in 1944 . Francis L . Moseley was an inventor and Vice President at the Hewlett - Packard Company . James W . Moseley is a longstanding figure in the UFO enthusiast community .