Coughlin Magazine Links Jewish Bankers with War Propaganda

Five famous Jewish names are identified as “international bankers” who desire war to collect on “defaulted debt bonds” in the current issue of Father Charles E. Coughlin’s weekly, Social Justice. Three-fourths of the back page of the magazine is taken up by an illustration, captioned “If War, What For?” which displays sketches of Moses Montefiore, Anselm Rothschild, Sir Marcus Samuel, Bernard Baruch and Sir Victor Sassoon, supperimposed on a map of the world.

In an editorial above the illustration, the magazine declared the impending world crisis will involve a “contest between anti-Capitalist powers and exploitation by international finance” rather than between democracies and dictatorships and asks:

“Will we fight to keep 13 million Americans unemployed and 22 millions on a New Deal dole? Or will we fight to collect on the defaulted debt bonds of the seldom seen but ever-present international bankers? Is it for the ‘owners of the world’ that we will be asked to fight? For the Rothschilds with their monopoly on all gold that passes through the privately-owned Bank of England and Bank of France? For the Rothschilds who with their satellites control the entire life of English Africa — railroads, street cars, waterfalls, power, mines, and the press? Will we fight to protect their privately-owned Suez Canal? Or will we fight for the Montefiores who own Australia, where there is not a goldfield or a sheep run, from Tasmania to New South Wales, but pays them heavy tribute? Will we fight to help the Sassoons and their British East India Company retain the world’s opium monopoly? It is high time that we identified the war-mongers. Who wants war? Where? If war, what for?”

Father Coughlin stressed that “international bankers” were seeking to bring about war in his weekly radio broadcast today.