Father Brophy Pledges Support
TOZIER, ROT
Father Brophy Pledges Support To New York Anti-Semitic Drive By ROT TOZIER Climaxing his rapid rise to power among fascist elements in the New York area, Rev. Edward F. Brophy of the Precious...
...And democracy cannot be preserved in the United States if it lies shattered in the rest of the world...
...Igino Mannecchia, who once edited a fascist weekly, and Mr...
...Father Brophy Pledges Support To New York Anti-Semitic Drive By ROT TOZIER Climaxing his rapid rise to power among fascist elements in the New York area, Rev...
...He was secretary and representative of the 'Italian Fascists Abroad,' New York State branch, from 1928 to 1930...
...A similar system announced by Dictator Salazar of Portugal, has also been enthuastically approved...
...Apparently "Brophy's Kampf" has become McWilliams Bible...
...This Italo-American Who is Who prints detailed life histories .of the people who are in charge of Italian programs at Station WOV...
...BUFFALO, N. Y. — The acquittal of the Christian Front group on charges of criminal conspiracy has been taken as the signal for increased activity by Father Coughlin and his Social Justice groups here...
...Ario Flamma, who has never published anything about anybody without first getting the autobiographical copy from the person interested...
...Pasciutti was selected for WOV by Professor Peter N. Riccio of Columbia University, whose doctorate thesis "On the Threshold of Fascism" was republished in Italy in 1939...
...Democrats Hedge as Nation Looks to FDR for Fight on Nazis When these lines appear in print, the Democratic convention in Chicago will have made its Presidential nomination, adopted a platform and gone into history...
...this purpose...
...On the question of foreign affairs, die Democratic platform is at variance, not only in spirit but in letter, with the policy which.we have come to regard as President Roosevelt's...
...The fact that Willkie, the Republican standard bearer, has shown a more intelligent grasp of the question offers no assurance...
...And how de we propose to avert England's defeat—by words, by prayers, by expressions of sympathy, or by action, effective action, strong action, uncompromising, fearless action...
...Another section headed "Wolves in the Clothing of Sheep" has this charming subhead: "Whitened Sepulchers, fair without, but, within, rottenness and dead menTs bones...
...It is not a pretty or reassuring apertaris, Ignorance and cowardice cannot be permitted to be the guides of a great party at a time when the very existence of civilization is at stake...
...Events are mightier than venal practitioners of selfish politics, vastly more potent than the fears, the hesitations, the smugness of multitudes...
...He was a squadrista (Storm Trooper) in Padova, participated in the March on Rome, showed himself very active in the Fascist University Groups and founded the 'Dopolavoro' in the Province of Padova...
...g?se...
...This is the party that helped assassinate the League of Nations...
...with hoof and mouth disease...
...The presence of Senators Wheeler, Walsh and McCarren on the sub-committee of the platform committee was an insult to human intelligence...
...To scare us, we are told that Hitler will attack us next," Father Nuwer declared...
...Following the acquittal of a majority of the 17 "Fronters" who had been indicted.for conspiracy against the United States government, Father Brophy completely won the hearts of the Christian Fronters who packed Prospect Hall in Brooklyn by announcing that the foreman of the jury, Mrs...
...In addition to this tts United States Government within the past ¦JSff...
...The campaign that is to follow, with President Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie as the candidates, will be the most important, the most crucial sirice the battle of 1860, which preceded the struggle for preservation of the Union and the abolition of slavery...
...But the task must be undertaken precisely because it is so difficult ,» The American people are aroused but not as yet sufficiently aroused to the full import of the issue that confronts them...
...P> j*» struggle for survival against the moot forfeitable combination of enemies history has ever seen—is to betray America...
...In return for his blessing, the McWilliams gang conferred its blessing upon the priest by applauding, stomping its feet, whistling and shouting...
...It advertises the Italian fascist motion picture theatre Cinecitta, whose showing of fascist propaganda news and documentary films has forced it to register with the State Department as a foreign agent Every Wednesday afternoon at 4:15 Chevalier Remo Fioroni, under the auspices of the Dante Aligbieri Society, conducts fascist cultural programs...
...Edward F. Brophy of the Precious Blood Church, Long Island City, this' week conferred his personal, and indirectly his apostolic, blessing upon the political aspirations of the leader of the Christian Mobilizers, Joseph E. McWilliams, and his first lieutenant, James Stewart...
...The Argentines made sacrifice aties to Britain and France...
...This Italo-American Who is Who is issued periodically by Mr...
...are some of the stumbling blocks alset up at Havana...
...Without putting his real meaning into words, he implied that conviction had been impossible from the beginning of the trial...
...Gaetano Ferri—"A Fascist of the first hour, he took part in the Piombino, Cecina, Messina, Catania and Modica days...
...It is the party of the Hawley-Smoot tariff, which contributed so much to the economic disintegration of the world and the rise of Fascism...
...All proceeds over and above, the cost_ of publication \cere «'to, be devoted to the support of Christian Americanism...
...As Cornejo :*pives in Havana, the president of the bank «|%b...
...Millions of bushels of corn are now piling trp in Argentina...
...During recent months he has addressed such fascistic groups as the Christian Civil Liberties Committee, the Paul...
...and appreciated also in Italy...
...But an even greater din resulted when Father Brophy, adopting the McWilliams terminology, referred to Jews as "Eskimos...
...We do not think they will fail now...
...Both McWilliams and Stewart are candidates of the Mobilizer spawned American Destiny Party for seats in the United States House of Representatives, the former from the 18th New York District, the latter from the 21st New York District...
...Mario Cappelloni, who was recommended by the Italian embassy in Washington...
...No, the Democratic convention did" not sPMk the language in which the Areerfcat peppli limit be addressed in this campaign...
...full iSjpfcoge that a leading supporter of Batista, Walso.supports the Franco government, will 5* charge of public information at the con^J^Tproposal to establish a protectorate over "r2L~moPean possessions meets with secret l??Sh °PP°siti°n and the British, having made ;Jg*^f«*ngements with Argentina, expect • WlPBtina...
...To Spread Duce Propaganda One of the most effectivev-Italian fascist propaganda agencies in America is Radio Station WOV in New York City, II Mondo, anti-fascist magazine, recently revealed...
...controls about half the financial busi"lisvcf Peru, is in Rome conferring with fas&kflivernment officials...
...His interpretation of the European situation,, which is one the Coughlinites will undoubtedly voice with increasing emphasis, is that America has nothing to fear from the benevolent system that is Nazism...
...Revere Sentinels and the Christian Front Boycott Committee...
...This is the same party that was fundamentally responsible for American isolation in world affairs during the past crucial twenty-two years...
...American isolationism, exemplified in the Republican Party, and Russian Bolshevism are the two forces which more than any others had made impossible -the reorganization of the world on sound foundations after the but war, and paved the road for the catastrophe of today...
...One section of the book is entitled "An Aggressive Element of the Jewish Front...
...To promise the people "peace"—Safety for their skins and flesh pots for their bellies—when before long this nation may hswe.-ts...
...France is now oat of the market but we still will not import Argentine meat...
...Leandro Forno—"In the year 1920 he started the first Fascist movement in Vicenza...
...Thei'l finally decided to send corn ..to-California over Department of "Commerce re^ plied by sending the United States surplus wheat to California...
...What the people of the United States will be called upon to decide in this campaign is the simple but all-surpassing question of whether the world, of which the United States is an organic part—organic and indivisible—can exist half - slave and halffree, half democratic and half totalitarian...
...Never mind the promise to preserve the social gains of the two Roosevelt administrations...
...In the meantime Father Brophy had performed, or attempted to perform, his first real service for Joseph McWilliams, who was being tried in the Brooklyn Felony Court on the charge of disturbing the peace...
...Of his own volition Father Brophy appeared in, court te confirm the truth of the statements made in the street corner speech which had caused McWilliams' arrest ^ ' • Father Brophy's testimony was not admitted as evidence because the truth or falsity of McVilliams'^tatements had no bearing: on the ease, but the Christian Mobilizers were profusely grateful...
...The Italo-American Who is Who 1936 edition sheds some lights on the people who are in charge of Italian programs at WOV...
...The Rev...
...In Fascist vernacular that means that he participated in the Fascist Storm Troopers (Squadristi) assault against the labor and socialist headquarters in these towns during the period preceding the March on Rome...
...Argentine Set to Oppose U.S...
...However, until quite recently he was just another speaker...
...The policy they offer as a guide for the United States in the world crisis is one of drift—Chamberlainism at its worst Behind that policy stand men like Hoover and Ford, ready to appease Hitler, to yield and keep on yielding while waving the flag of patriotism until the tragedy that has overwhelmed the countries of Europe, including France, descends upon America...
...At that meeting it was announced that a 56page booklet by Father Brophy entitled "The Christian Front" had just been released and was on sale for 15 cents...
...Although it begins on this sententious note, "If you be a Christian, dear Reader, reflect on the value of your Christian heritage," it wastes few pages before developing into a typical Nazi product, which, first, identifies Jews with Communism, and, second, seeks to prove that Jewish-Communists are organized for action...
...months' attempted to coerce Chile away b*» German barter deals by withholding a jy» intended to build up the Chilean coal inIpUj, without which Chile cannot be ecoISnically independent r .Sfcru—Moving into the Argentine orbjt, Peru Apssnding as its representative at Havana its ¦tester of Justice, Cornejo, a famous South J*|«riean authority on jurisprudence (TJniyerK'ffeof San Marcos), whose biggest client has ¦-',P«J» been the Banso d'ltalia...
...With the rise 'jfejhe royalist party in France, Brazil may WRt* Pan-American protectorate over French ;J|iw«s5ons...
...Roman J. Nuwer, speaking on the present European conflict as a chaplain in the New York National Guard, warned against subtle Allied propaganda attempting to involve us in the war...
...The Republican Bourbons have learned nothing and forgotten everything...
...Argentina—The ¦prosperity of at least two million people depend upon the market for meat, corn and wheat Last fall, when Argentina was begging for a market for meat, the United States replied that Argentine beef was nfected...
...She will not agree to join a cartel Msg Washington control over her enormous tin deposits...
...To return the government of the United States into the hands of the Republican party would mean, therefore, to deepen the universal crisis, to aggravate the destructive elements operating in this nation and in the world, to shatter the hope of mankind for emancipation \from the demoniac forces of Hitlerite and Fascist despotism...
...Father Brophy's role as spokesman for Clerical Fascism is not a new one...
...The citizens of this country have never failed to rise to the occasion in moments of great crisis...
...Do we intend to permit her to be defeated and thereby see oar owp first line of defense destroyed...
...To the 1,500 Coughlinites who packed Vasa Temple in the Bronx, Father Brophy said: "I am happy to support the candidacies of these two Christian men...
...His fascist propaganda was so overt that in 1934 a number of Columbia professors issued a brochure against him called "An Academic .Scandal...
...ilWivia— Years ago the United States and British steel interests made their own "socialise" deal to split the world tin market ReSjit: The U. S. imports all tin from the Far kit- and any of Bolivia's tin reaching the Dnited States must go through British hands...
...Brief examination of the booklet indicates its title is a misnomer...
...Bolivia, has sent a leading politician to Ger'Mny to "rescue" Bolivia from t|e control of tie United States and American tin and steel Hjams...
...Mexico—Will go the limit for Roosevelt and 'tjfohs ^ulgencio Batista, winner of the SunW elections, faces organized opposition from m, ¦ Falange which, imported from Franco Wftn, is spreading like wildfire in Cuba (and jJsBany other Hispanic-American nations...
...Result: Argentina was stymied again and now counts only upon the end of the war and a famine market in -Europe.' They will not igree to' a United States attempt to control 'jpwliiie- surplus \ for the purpose of resistis»> European barter encroachment - ^¦Uroguayi—At Rio Negro the Germans have dreeST'to'' iiWya," great electric power system, tanparable -to' T." V. A., and every telephone ttttn in Uruguay 'is in hock to the Germans Sr...
...to act for them...
...No attempt is being made any longer to conceal the pro-fascist sympathies of the organization...
...This was made evident at the Democratic convention, where the timid and the isolationists had entirely too much to say...
...This is true -to about the same extent that our own hi infected...
...The week following Father Brophy's startling announcement, he was asked to be one of the principal speakers at a Christian Front rally to celebrate, ironically, Independence Day and the acquittal of the alleged conspirators...
...H Mondo's editors state that the men in charge of WOV's Italian programs are all prominent and veteran Fascists...
...Of the Republican convention and its platform little need be said...
...While admitting the existence of Communist and Nazi propaganda, Rev.' Nuwer was particularly concerned with Allied activities, which he labelled, "simply British...
...At the meeting of the American , Destiny Party July 16 McWilliams announced that he ¦would insist all members of both the party and the Christian Mobilizers buy'^at least one copy of Father Brophy's booklet...
...They essM^hjL'R*> served unless, democracy is preserved...
...It is Hitler's...
...The politicians of both parties may not as yet appreciate this fact but we hope they will before the campaign is over...
...WOV's Fascist propaganda doesn't end with its news comments...
...Unfortunately, as we have already Indicated, the Democratic party, too, is not free of isolationist elements who have shown ability and power to terrorize the party on the foreign plank in the platform adopted .at Chicago...
...He completely scoffed at the idea that the Fuehrer was at all interested in, or would attempt to interfere with American affairs...
...They refute the denials of Miss Hyla Kiczales, WOV's manager, by revealing that the station's new censor, Mr...
...The same holds true of the people, although we are convinced that the people are immeasurably superior to the politicians, that the politicians are mistaken when for the sake of votes they tell the people what they think they want to hear...
...What the politicians of this country, what the whole American pee pie roust be pre* pared to answer, and not in words but in deeds, is what does this country intend to do it England is defeated...
...The issue now is even more fundamental...
...jpr«yilt-Will outwardly support United States but secretly applaud if they are deSJjwi by Argentine resistance...
...Nazis Bar Papal Nuncios From Belgium, Holland LONDON.—The Gestapo, in charge of the Reich occupation of Holland and Belgium, has informed the Holy See that, notwithstanding the Pope's approval of the Fascist Petain regime in France, the German Government will refuse to allow Papal diplomatic envoys in Holland and Belgium to remain there in their religious capacities as Apostolic Delegates after the other diplomats had been ordered out The Church in France as well as the Vatican have hailed the Family, Youth and Country plan enunciated by Jean Ybargenary, Cagoulard Fascist in Petain's regime...
...f, i * Will he act Stephen Douglas eV^^Mb.lis show the courage and vision nf TflliisaaT tlW bim have no fear, for the people Wlowed, Jjbv coin—and they will follow him agaJnJ...
...The people of the United States must be told the truth, the whole truth and OOtMaf 'he* the truth...
...This information was placed in the hands of the Department of Justice...
...The choice of peace is not America's...
...Beside this issue all others that may be presented in the course of the campaign pale into insignificance...
...at Havana Parley By BRYCE OLIVER WEVD News Commentator 3 The chancellors of the Americas will gather at Havana on Saturday to discuss proposals emanating from the United States for total defense of the Western Hemisphere against encroachaents—military or economic Here are a few reasons why the United States does not "have a prayer" of a chance to achieve its objectives...
...it might more "aptly have been called "Brophy's Kampf...
...A Republican Congress in control of the government of the United States would be a calamity for the nation and for the world...
...Basupports the Washington proposal for • fttjAmerican protectorate over European pos"¦fcjkns in the Western Hemisphere but must outright or mental reservations against <?*.• Possibility of "something going wrong" 2L*ke United States, in relation to possible of Spain...
...While the plank dealing with foreign policy finally adopted by the convention was not quite so weak as that of the Republicans ana was obviously designed to enable the bead of the ticket to interpret it as he pleased, the fact of its adoption indicates the tremendous amount of work and education that lies ahead on tine issue to make the people understand what is invelved...
...We await the utterances of the PMs4fcNe*X 4 Will he trim then to the Democratic platform and the attach* of the Opposftsm sr irfPlMi speak out boldly in the cause with which hi* name has been associated...
...He succeeded Mr...
...Another is-the...
...A meeting of the Buffalo "Non-Partisan" Social Justice Club on July 8 afforded a preview of what may be expected throughout the country...
...It will not be an easy task to mobilize and galvanize the nation into action behind a proper policy of national defense, political and military, a policy which cannot be effective unless it is made part of a larger program of world defense, of world resistance to the forces which threaten to destroy civilization...
...John Pasciutti, was formerly a National City bank employee in Italy...
...Of the seventeen members of this powerful committee at least half were either die-hard isolationists or known non - interventionists...
...Hitlerism,' Father Nuwer believes, has restored Germany economically, and will help to break down the barriers that have hindered trade and intercourse on the European continent so far...
...Italian Fascists Use W.O.V...
...From these detailed biographies we quote in part: WiS: * Giovanni Favoino di Giura—"From 1925 to 1930 he edited II Vittoriale^ which he founded, a splendid Fascist magazine which is very well known in the U.S.A...
...For what is at stake is not only the security and independence of this nation but the liberty of the world...
...Helen " Titus, is his cousin, and that she is "very friendly to the Christian Front...
...43h8e—•Threatened with isolation from a "naIfcuBsitc" bloc forming under the aegis of jbfcnos Aires, the Chileans will support Arftntine moves at Havana...
Vol. 23 • July 1940 • No. 29
