The metropolitan press today welcomed the barring of “Social Justice” from the mails. The New York Times, in an editorial said that “nine out of ten of those Americans who are familiar with the doctrines preached in the Coughlin magazine, Social Justice, would feel that the air was purer if this publication were to disappear.”
The New York Herald-Tribune, in an editorial praising the act, stated that it is “the most direct blow which the government has yet struck against disruptive, defeatist, Fascist-minded literature of disunity and race prejudice, which certain persons are still freely manufacturing in this country.”
The New York Post, in commenting on the ban, asked “if Social Justice is bad enough to be banned from the mails, why is it not bad enough to warrant investigation for possible sterner legal action against all concerned with it.” PM, an afternoon newspaper, commented in similar vein.
The Berlin radio, in a Nazi propaganda broadcast in English, said that “President Roosevelt is eager to get rid of Rev. Coughlin by gangster methods so popular in America.” This, the Nazi speaker said, is due to the fact that the Detroit priest “has the talent to enlighten the people of the United States with regard to their President’s Jewish and Bolshevik cronies.”
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