Professor Moley, laying the latest Communist plot bogey as the emanation of the fevered mind of George W. Christians, introduced to the readers of the general press a gentleman known to readers of the Jewish Daily Bulletin for some time as the leader of a Fascist group which sought Jewish contributions to support the distribution in this country of copies of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
Lest this be taken as a sign that the man is insane, we hasten to add that every copy of the “protocols” was to have been accompanied by a letter from Mr. Christians explaining that this book is the fundamental philosophy of Fascism and of the unjust’ persecutions of the Jews through the ages.
Mr. Christians is the leader and organizer of the Crusaders White Shirts and the Crusaders for Economic Liberty. His organizers sell American flags, white shirts with a red cross over the heart and sets of insignia buttons.
“General Orders” of the organization recently issued detail plans for the seizure by the crusaders of all local governments as well as an elaborate plan for capture of the capitol at Washington when “the day” comes.
The “general orders” advise that funds to finance the national march on Washington are to be raised by donations “which can be obtained from most people by merely appealing to their patriotism.”
With some afterthought, though, the leader appends, “However, a patriotic appeal will probably not have much effect on the people who have most of the money nowadays.” He warns that there will be a great temptation to “use a few pineapples to loosen up those fat pocket books.” This temptation, he says, “should be righteously resisted.”
In a letter received by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the White Shirt Crusaders advise that unless two Chicago gentlemen whom he describes as “a pair of rats,” cease “persecuting” one Oscar Pfaus of Chicago for his Nazi activities, the Chicago underworld will be instructed to act.
“If you don’t think we mean what we say.” admonished Mr. Christians, “just make a few inquiries and find out who is who in the Chicago underworld.
“Yours in the fellowship of freedom.”
In a letter to a Mr. T. O. Busbee, of Tampa, Fla., a copy of which Christians enclosed in his letter to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Mr. Busbee is asked to “use your underground connections to see that Mr. Pfaus gets the protection that he needs so that we can keep this scrap in the open and get all the publicity possible.”
Herr Pfaus, for whose welfare Christians exhibited such solicitude, is a Chicago Nazi leader whose principal activity, in addition to anti-Jewish speeches, has been to attempt to coordinate the Fascist organizations which have mushroomed into existence in this country in the past year into one large organization affiliated with the Hitler movement here. He is president of the German Alliance of Chicago.
If President Roosevelt is the “Kerensky of the American Revolution,” as Dr. Wirt fears and Christians fondly believe is it posible that the latter gentleman sees himself as the “Stalin” who will repudiate the national debt, destroy the gold standard and make the “American Declaration of Economic Independence” (the fruit of the first dedication class of the crusaders) the new constitution of this country?
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