Asserting that the Government and press have for years handled Coughlin “far too gently,” Westbrook Pegler said in his New York World Telegram column today that the “radio priest” has “called for a showdown” now that he has “identified himself with the so-called Christian Front.”
A Washington dispatch to the Telegram by Ludwell Denny predicted that Coughlin, who assertedly has lost prestige in Washington since his avowal of support of the Christian Front, “will be the center of the biggest battle in the revived Dies committee.”
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