A Portrait of "Dorian" Grace
Lewis, Conrad Vaughn
A Portrait of "Dorian" Grace By Conrad Vaughn Lewis p-paHEY ALL SAT GRACE: The« ia an old axiom that "You can't tell a book by I ita cover." This may be true lor books, but it does not hold true...
...But many Jews bewail that ssme trend...
...On August, 6, 1940, Social Juetice...
...Elizabeth Dilllng wrote in 1940 about Southard and Grace's committee: "I have just talked with Mr...
...Tea can tail Mr...
...The papers are Ailed with eloquent speeches, and over the radio waves come appeals for tolerance...
...Lizzie Dilling, the titian-haired anatomic bombshell of anti-Semitism, spoka for Grace'e group on January SI, 1941...
...it gave Southard the opportunity of making more speeches to -a wider audience...
...Dennis spoke for Nazi agent George Sylvester Viereck...
...4 • TWO NEGROES WERE MURDERED by police in a Columbia, Tenn., jail on Feb...
...Sparkplug of super-nationalism, he is Chicago's headache today, America's political headache tomorrow- if he wins...
...There are many students of the "nationalist" trend in America who believe that Grace's offices are merely the Chicsgo outlets for Gerald L. K. Smith's activities...
...America to the brink of war...
...It is not vary often that the electorate has the opportunity of choosing ita judicial Dalai I ¦fir—- Usually, judgeships are handed out as political plums for services ren-l, dered Because the electorate of Chicago has this very rare chance, the activities of the man who has announced himself as a candidate for public office, should be scrutinised...
...Gerald L. K. Smith has spoken several times for Grace...
...Charles A. Lindbergh will definitely be a candidate for public office in the not too distant future...
...The offices are stacked with literature, much of it bearing the imprint of the Citizens USA Committee...
...At this rally under Grace's auspices, she urged a march on Washington to help defeat legislation pending to aid our Allies...
...She received quite an ovation...
...Mote, Cathrine V. Brown of the National Blue Star Mothers, Mrs...
...Dennis was, in this same period, dining regularly with Naziphile Joe McWilliams...
...On the literature tables at Grace'e meetings one finds pamphlet* by Rev...
...Sanderson is chairman of the Northwest Monetary Conference and the National Farmers snd Home Owners League...
...Gladya Stephenson, and her son knocked him through a window...
...Elizabeth Dilling and Ellis O. Jones...
...Before Pearl Harbor, Charlea A. Lindbergh, in Des Moines, Iowa, accused "the British, Roosevelt Admin* istrstien snd the Jews" of bringing...
...Republican leaders are alleged to have remarked, after pondering a picture of Grace in a newspaper: "Ah, this is a true picture of 'Dorian' Grace...
...Dilling, and Harvey Springer, an associate of alleged sedition ist (iciald B. Winrod, are other members of the committee...
...The sentencing came after months of legal haggling...
...S. 0. Sanderson of Rochester, Minn., visited Carl H. Mote at the Mayo Clinic...
...In Chicago, shortly before Pearl Harbor, Grace merged his Keep America Out of War Committee with the America First Committee...
...ELIZABETH DILLINGS son, Kirkpstrick, is a 1st Lieutenant in the US Army's Information and Education Division in India...
...This followed a reign of terror in the Negro section of that southern town, during which the Negroes resisted an attempt to capture and lynch a war veteran, James Stephenson...
...Grace has contributed to imprisoned aeditionist William Dudley Pelley's late journal, the Roll Call...
...The Miami Herald on February 24 carried a classified' advertisement: "The KKK welcomes you...
...On September 1, 1941, *n article under Grace's by-line said of the late President Roosevelt: . . This arrogant denunciator of Hitler whose envy, in our opinion, of Hitler's successes causes him to imitate every act of Hitler's...
...Karl Southard also heads the Committee for American Independence...
...He is sending me cards to enclose with this letter...
...C. O. Stadsklev, an associate of Mrs...
...In 19'«i, Dennis had an hour's conference with Mussolini and later dined with Count Ignazio Tahon de Revel, secretary of the Fascist Party Abroad...
...A. W. Terminiello, recently suspended by the Catholic Church...
...The latter two are both indicted for alleged sedition...
...Write Glenwood Heights P. 0. Box S37, Miami...
...This may be true lor books, but it does not hold true for William J. ¦"- Grace, who ia a candidate in the Republican primaries for Cook County Judge...
...One is a reprint of a speech made by Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick...
...Maertx( in his latest and perhaps last Ditpattk, reprints part of the full-page advertisement In the AT Pott of January 14, announcing the spring term of the Rand School...
...But Brotherhood Week was celebrated by the NYC Board of Education in a unique manner—by an exhibition of tolerance for May Quinn, whose classroom teachings were characterized by intolerance and bigotry — if not outright anti-Semitism and scorn of democracy, She was fined $650 for "neglignece," but whitewashed on the main charges and reinstated...
...An autographed picture of Smith hung in Grace's office in 1944...
...Homer Maertz, Ernest Elmhurst and Kurt Mertig, the hate trio, were sentenced to one year and six months each in a Queens court last week...
...Earl Southard, secretary of the Citizens Keep American Out of War Committee...
...Mrs...
...Sanderson is a member of the advisory board of G. L. K. Smith's National Emergency Committee...
...The honeymoon was short However, this gave Grace the opportunity of meeting with new people...
...He is campaigning vigorously for the exoneration of Tyler Kent...
...Grace by his speeches, his associations and by the nice things which e*Jteteful people hart said about him...
...Dennis is now indicted for alleged sedition...
...Jews are now more "Jewish-conscious" than ever before, they added, Hitler Is responelble for halting tha trend toward amalgamation and disappearance of divisions swtween Jew and Gentile...
...The latter is allegedly the pseudonym of Grace's right-hand man, Earl Southard...
...He recently wrote his mother that he was happy to have received his promotion and he, as always, supported her efforts 100 percent...
...They have had conferences both in Smith's private suite at the Hotel Statler in Detroit and in Grace's offices in Chicsgo...
...On January 26, 1941, Mrs...
...The question still to be decided is to rind "safe" territory...
...The decision was protested by both the Communist-led Teachers Union (CIO) and the more conservative Teachers Guild (API,,, as well as by the Jewish Labor Committee, and the Liberal Party...
...Kenneth Goff, former YCL'er, has .Ito spoken for Southard...
...100 Negroes were arrested...
...The trouble started when a white man, William Fleming, attacked Mrs...
...He is a dandy and knows what It ia all about...
...announcing a meeting to be held nnder the auspicee of William J. Grace's prewar "Citizens Keep America Out of War Committee," said that Mr...
...Curran recently shared a box with John J. Henihen, Jr., former Christian Front orator and official agent for Social Juttice, at the Frank Fay rally in New York's Madison Squsre Garden...
...ANTI-SEMITISM HAS INCREASED despite tlie defeat of the Fascist Axis, Jewish leaders conferring in London agreed...
...In Germany, Dennis met Baron Ulrich von Gienanth, who later became the pay-off man to Laura Ingalls, convicted Nazi propagandist...
...Killing's, has sddressed Southard's new group...
...Vow in Chicago, Me-Willianis was seen frequently at Grace's Citizens USA Committee meetings...
...Grace's postwar "Citizens USA Committee" is housed In the Engineering Building, M« West Wacker Drive, Chicago...
...Use them...
...Carl H. Mote, anti-Semitic Indianapolis telephone magnate, gave his blessings to the short-lived Republican Nationalist Revival organisation...
...Van Hyning, head of the strongly isolationist We, the Mothers, Mobilize, ia seen frequently st Grace's Friday evening rallies...
...Grace read a statement to the Republican Conference which was reported in the pro-Coughlinite Gaelic-American of September 25, 1943...
...Heard on the Right: Mrs...
...Said Grace: "The Mackinac declaration on foreign policy ranks with the Atlsntic Charter in hypocrisy, degradation, double-talk and un Americanism...
...On February 22, 1944, the Reverend Edward Lodge Curran, the spokesman for Coughlinite groups still existing, spoke for Grace's organization...
...Kister is linked with Gerald L. K. Smith, George Vose, Mrs...
...In the spring of 1941, the admittedly pro-Fascist Lawrence Dennis spoke under Grace's auspices...
...Frederick Kister, whose Christian American War Veterans organization is preparing to enter the political arena to support him as a Congressional candidate in Chicago, was sn usher at most of Grace's rallies before and sfter Pearl Harbor...
...Dilling took a bow at a rally chairmaned by Grace himself in Chicago...
...Another pamphlet being circulated by the Grace groups by one "Amer-icanus" has already been exposed in The New Leader...
...Maertz singled out those ha considered to be Jewish who were listed as instructors, and concludes: "Most aasurediy, the Rand incubator should provide a healthy brood of future HlUmans, Dubinskys, Patofskys, and their ilk, in thla changing world...
...Articles by Carl Mote have been distributed, as has the anti-Semitic pamphlet Thie 'New World Order'—Whole Concept It ItT, published by the so-called Frlendj of the Constitution ! In this atmosphere walks William J. Grace, candidate for an office which calls for impartiality...
...EN the Republican Party waa meeting on Mackinac Island, Michigan, Grace formed his Republican Nationalist Revival Committee...
...William Dudley Pelley, imprisoned Silver Shirt leader, wrote in hia seditious Roll Call on September 2, 1941: "People who were turned down by the America Firsters on account of their disapprobation of Jewish tactics could alwaya join the Citizens Keep America Out of War Committee, which most of them did...
...The National Association for tha Advancement of Colored People have asked intervention by Federal authorities, to safeguard the constitutional rights of Negroes...
...A mob was farmed to lynch both ef them...
...Another is by John T. Flynn, with the imprint of pro-Franco Merwin K. Hart's National Economic Council...
...Smith, incidentally, will be tried on March 27, along with Frederick Kister and Father Terminiello, in the case arising out of the riots in Chicago early in February.' BROTHERHOOD IS WONDERFUL__ All decent civic leadens, especially educator, are against racial discrimination, of course...
...Just how the fine will make her a better teacher is s puzzle...
...Gerald L. K Smith In the currant edition of his The Croat and the Flag announces: "A mutual friend tells us that he feels tha seme about all major issues ss he did before the war...
...Grace waa a former State's Attorney and also the former President of the Irish Fel-lowship Club of Chicago...
...Mrs...
...May Quinn, recently exonerated by the NYC Board of Education on charges of fostering anti-racial bias in her classroom, is the same May Quinn who spoke several years ago from the same platform with Christian Fronter John J. Henihen, Jr...
...She was fined for irresponsible use of scurrilous material—i.e., pamphlets Issued by crypto-Fascist organizations...
Vol. 29 • March 1946 • No. 12
