Major-General George Van Horn Mosely, who recently retired, is being sought to head a “national Christian organization” that would combine the existing 800-000 Fascist groups in the United States, declares the Institute for Propaganda Analysis in a study of “The Attack on Democracy.”
George Deatherage, head of the Knights of the White Camelia, a Fascist organization, who is seeking to form a unified American Nationalist Confederation which already publicizes itself as “the official Fascist Party,” was revealed as stating in a recent letter that he was delaying further reorganization in the hope of getting General Mosely “to head a national Christian organization that we can all back.”
The study points out that General Mosely could bring to Mr. Deatherage “not only his talents as speaker and leader of men, but also heavy financial backing as well.” It quotes the retired Major General as telling the New York Board of Trade in a speech: “…Our domestic enemies (the Communists, President Roosevelt and Bernard Baruch) should be warned, therefore, not to excite the wrath of patriotic America, for once these patriots go into battle they will cure the disease definitely and make those massacres now recorded in history look like peaceful church parades…”
The institute quotes the Rev. L.M. Birkhead of Kansas City as making the guess that one voter in every three in the United States is being subjected to Fascist propaganda.
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