Emma Goldman, Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, President Roosevelt. John Haynes Holmes, Bishop Gerald Shaughnessy, Mayor LaGuardia, and their revoluntionary brother in Moscow, Vienna and Paris–they’re all working in harmony!
That is the only conclusion William Dudley Pelley can arrive at, after reading a single issue of the Jewish Daily Bulletin. It got him go excited that he devoted a full page to the Bulletin in the latest issue of Liberation. In fact, all the news in the Bulletin got him excited.
Thus the gods of the Silver Shirt heaven laughed loudly when they read of Jews changing their names in Palestine, in order to have real Hebrew patryonymics. This is the cause “of considerable humor to Silver Shirts across the nation, who have been carefully tabulasing the lists of Jews operating under Gentile names, and who are therefore thoroughly cognizant of this Jewish tendency to misrep-resentation.”
And Pelley finds it strange that there should be a persecution complex among a “people who have murdered some 1,680,000 Gentiles” in Russia during the Revolution.
Silver Shirt statistics obviously arrive direct from Pelley’s divine sources, where one has no fear of not going to heaven if one doesn’t tell the truth. Even in the introduction to the soul-saving weekly message from the vasiness of Cosmos, it is asked, “If the Word was made flesh and spake to man, how much stranger may he is pronouncements when the handicaps of the flesh are perished?”
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