The Mote in Their Eyes
Kellman, George
The Mote in Their Eyes By GEORGE KELLMAN SEVERAL weaks ago, the board of directors of The National Farmers' Guild indignantly assembled and tailed Cad H. Mote from the presidency af thst...
...Mote enjoys a catholicity of hates, Jews serving the additional purpose of being a general catch-all for those which he cannot otherwise classify...
...In referring to the Gu'ld as an 'America First' organization, I merely meant to convey that it is one of the many organizations in the United States that believes in the America First principle...
...Their failing is the failing of loo many of us—in fart, it is the tragedy of our troubled world: the woeful inability of loo many of us lo recognise Nazism, unless it balefnlly glares at Us—in unmistakable words—in bold, black IMP*' * • • The Communists Want tktt OI'% to Coma Home • The Communist-backed mass meet-, ing in Manhattan Center on ^>er...
...Properly cenaidered, the war has rally demonstrated one thing, and that is that the Germans are superior to Americans and English physically, intellectually, rsthetirally and morally...
...Following in his master's wske came George Vose, the leader of Smith's "front" organization, The Nationalist Veterans of World !vVar II, himself no mean hand at deina-f»8uery...
...I am ashamed te be an American...
...The concluding lines of Mole's "monograph," Poliliral Theologians and Theological Politicians, are: ". . . If you are a Roman Catholic or a Christian Scientist, you'd better keep both eyes open and watch the headquarters of the Hierarchy, or you'll be serving the Devil in spite of yourself...
...As their righteous indignation mounted, the board of directors of the Guild met for the salutary purpose of creating a vacancy in the presidency...
...The Guild's official publication...
...Sam Darcy's application to rejoin the CP was rejected because he refused to submit the manuscript of s book he has written about his fight with Browder, for which he was expelled in June, 1944, for party censorship...
...However, he often falls off his dignified perch, as when, in last October's America Preferred, he lambasted the author of a recent plea for tolerance...
...Old-time parly-liner Joe fiiiraii, president of the New York CIO Council, was chairman...
...S. L. Corrothers, Cal Tinney, Louis Hollander, and Naomi Nash...
...The Wayne Local No...
...22 of the Guild staged i< mass rally for Smith al the Greenville, Ohio, Fair Grounds on July 4, 1944, which was attended by 5,000...
...Thus wrote Mote: "The life of a Guggenheim fellow is busier than that of a pimp who does the footwork in a taxi dance hall...
...When Smith teamed up with ex-Sen-atoi Reynolds and his Nstionalist movement, Mote made it clear that he would Join any third party movement which 8mith entered...
...But what is Melvyn Douglas doing in this line-up...
...8 "to speed the CPs home" was addressed by Major Melvyn Douglas, Rep...
...The Rev...
...Mote testified at this Senate hearing that he spoke for "Youth for Christ" and ether organisations...
...I think it ia about time to tell the ignorant Americana something about the greatness of the Germans...
...Anti-Semitism in CCNY Fol'lt professors of the Department of Romance Languages of Ihe College of the City of New York—Otto Muller, Elliot H. Pollnger, Kphraim Cronx, and Pedro Bach-y-Hila—hare accused Professors Knickerbocker and Bergeron, who rule the department, of "secret and open warfare against Jews...
...Sam Darcy and Sam Don Out of the CP • PM carried a story on Dec...
...The Communists want China as their own special preserve...
...Let us not he too smug in our judgment of the members of the National Farmers' Guild...
...Richard Harvey, vice president of the movement, commented, "1 never heard of Carl Mote...
...Sprawling all over the back-caver of that issue, in bold-faced type, was a "letter" which said in part: "Hitler, I gueaa, has practically lost Ihr war, so we ought to be able to apeak oat more freely...
...Soon after Mote became president of the National Farmers' Guild, Gerald I...
...To this was united a continual propaganda campaign against Je*i«h students and intrigue against (hem . . . [KnickerbockerI has made scurrilous remsrks about Jews...
...And the fewer GI's there are in Europe the easier the task of the Communists there...
...Reason: he wrote the letter to Wilson of General Motors sgreeing to call off the strike in key GM plants manufacturing parts, to which he affixed R. J.'s signal ure...
...They are the master rare all right, if "master" means superior...
...Sam Don (Donchin), who was once a big-shot under Browder's regime, was expelled from the CP, as predicted here, fur factional activity...
...Dairy is now running a furniture store...
...They declared that the Knickerbocker regime has sought te purge the depsrlmenl of Jews, refused to appoint Jews as teachers in the department, and refrained from recommending Jewish teachers for promotion...
...Another thing that incensed the inein-•ership was the fact that Mote had been circulating a letter written to him, which urged that the farmers seise a few idle Army trucks for their own use, "as a form of domestic lend-lease...
...Harold .1...
...One thing concerning their relationship is very clear: Mote will always do Smith a. service whenever and wherever he can...
...K. Smith began a speaking tour of tha Guild's constituent locals...
...You can't fool these Guild members...
...The name of Mote's publication is America Preferred...
...Again, when Smith's stooge, Frederick Kister, organized a committee of veterans of World War II in Chicago, Mote was the principal speaker at its first meeting on April 22, 1945, at the la Salle Hotel...
...Emphasis is on evacuation of American troops from China...
...Rumor has it that Dave Connally, editor of The Auto Worker and R. J. Thomas' publicity man, will get the aie when the Generul Executive Board meets...
...Rut the members of the Guild seemed quite undisturbed about their president— that is, until last May's issue of America Preferred nestled in their RFI) boxes...
...Hugh de Lacy, Rev...
...It seems that the gentleman was guilty of the additional crime of having been the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship...
...Ihe maintenance and perpetuation of this regime of anti-Semitism and anti-intellertualiam was based on intimidation and favoritism, with disregard ef academic merit," the four professors charged...
...There, on that back-cover was Nazism— plain as day...
...Vose while a soldier was convicted by a court martial for selling liberty passes to h'.s comrades, snd for selling property belonging to the Government...
...As a matter of fart, Mote has even testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Commutes against the United Nations Charter as Smith's representative...
...What PM and the Daily Worker do not report is that Foster begged Darcy to come back Into the party...
...Here are Smith's words from the January, 1945, issue of The Farmers' Guild News: "I am sorry that anyone got the impression from a recent article appearing in the magazine I edit, The Cross and The Flag, that I was attempting to appropriate the Farmers' Guild as an organic unit in The America First Party...
...The Mote in Their Eyes By GEORGE KELLMAN SEVERAL weaks ago, the board of directors of The National Farmers' Guild indignantly assembled and tailed Cad H. Mote from the presidency af thst organization...
...It was accompanied by a 24-hour strike of merchant seamen refusing to man any ship not bringing the boys back...
...Sabotage Against Pf PC • The Communist-organized Independent Committee of the Arts, Scientists, and Professions is starting a new drive for the Fair Employment Practices Commission bill, H It 2232, in the second attempt made by the Communists and fellow-travelers to take the leadership of the FF.I'C fight from the National Council for FEPC which has the support of all labor organizations and other non-CP groups opposed to racial discrimination...
...4 thai The New Leader told a month ago...
...It was at this convention that delegate Homer Maertz, convicted Chicago hoodlum, introduced a resolution calling for the sterilization of all Jews in America...
...I.aski and Israel Moses SiefT in England, and by Felix Frankfurter and Ben Cohen in the United States is managing the conspiracy to convert both countries to Communism and Socialism...
...The Farmers* Guild News, was soon transformed into a mere sounding hoard for Mote anil his bigot-line...
...The only rumblings of discontent were heard when Smith appeared to be putting the Guild in his vest pocket...
...Youth for Christ" is a purely religious movement with many thousands of adherents...
...A British-American cabal directed by Prol...
...It is very unfortunate that many innocent liberals fall for the ICASI* propaganda, because the defeat of the FEPC bill is assured If the Communist succeed in their maneuver...
...They saw their duty, and, like good Americans, they did it...
...When Gerald L. K. Smith ran his America First party convention in Detroit during August, 1944, at which he was nominated as a candidate for the presidency, Mote obligingly served as chairman...
...This movement turned out to be the American Nationalist Party, which has been so thoroughly exposed by the Scripps-Howard papers...
...In its April, 1945, issue, we are told that: "English fanners are subject to the same kind of bureaucratic despotism as American farmers and the origins of this despotism are the same in Eng-laud as in the United States...
...Mote generally affects an erudite style, liberally interspersing his language with elegant cliches...
...The members of the Guild, which is active principally in Indiana, Ohio and Illui'M '. were shocked when, in the very month ,f Victory in Europe, they rend the May, 1946, number of Mote's monthly publication...
...Mote, an Indianapolis attorney who is president of two telephone companies, is the intimate friend and faithful disciple •f GeraM L. K. Smith...
Vol. 28 • December 1945 • No. 49
