Pelley’s Weekly, the organ of William Dudley Pelley, commander of the anti-Semitic Silver Shirts, carries the following sentence in red type at the top of the front page of the current number:
“That reward of $250,000 to anyone who will make the nation discard its Silver Shirts surely sets an all-time record in Jewish offerings for men’s cast-off garments.”
No details of the alleged offer are furnished.
Declaring that “Sunday in Washington resembles Yum Kippur in Manhattan’s business districts,” an article entitled “The Battle Cry of Feed ‘Em” attacks Bernard M. Baruch, General Hugh Johnson, General Johnson’s secretary and the NRA.
It charges that “these Yiddishers” fill the departments of government in the national capital.
Baruch is called the “heavyweight counsellor behind the scenes”; Johnson a “sacred cow of the Jewish administration,” and Miss Robinson, Johnson’s secretary, an “astute little Jewish who took the name Robinson because it sounded nicer than her true Jewish name of the stripe of Jebowitz or Jerboski.”
Pelley, in the leading article, which is headed “Don’t Be Fooled by Secrecy,” whines that “human termites” are being sent out “among uninformed people” to broadcast that the Silver Shirts are Communists in disguise.
“The Silver Shirts Press On, Undaunted by Each Calumny,” is the title of another article in the same issue.
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