President Roosevelt’s declaration of an unlimited national emergency is attacked in The Roll Call, new organ of William Dudley Pelley, anti-Semitic agitator, copies of which were distributed this morning on Capitol Hill and to newspaper correspondents.
Congressmen entering their offices found copies of the paper stuffed under their doors. Newspaper correspondents found a stack of them in the National Press Club. They were also being circulated free in every Government department.
The Roll Call couples the names of Pelley, Father Coughlin, Gen. George van Horn Moseley and other anti-Semites with those of Charles A. Lindbergh and Senators Wheeler and Nye.
Praising Hitler as “a personage who has successfully driven from his land a racial element that, wherever lodged, has worked its moral depredations,” the paper declares that “Hitler has won again in the eastern Mediterranean and by the time the forces of anti-isolationism have pushed to control of the Congress, the British Empire may be all over but the shouting.”
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