Page Two Ballotts For A Free America BY MILTON PERSITZ Are there ary similarities between the points of view cited m the Grand Jury's indictment of 2$ people headed by Gerald Wirirod—and men row running for Congress? In the second .rstaliment of a series. Milton Persitz names names and suggests how Americans can keep America free. . . . The Editor Anti-Semites, aiming to estab lish a Hitler Paradise " in Amer ica. are working furiously to make their influence felt in the election of the next Congress. Will Jews, with much more at stake, watch the scene with bored indifference or will they cast their ballots for a free America? On April l, 1942. a dinner meet ing was held at a spot near Mt Vernon. N. Y. There were pres ent representatives of Women United. Christian Front. Germar.- Amer.car. Bund and former Amer ica Firsters. Behind the cfcas there was a backdrop for speak ers consisting of greatly enlarged photgTaphs of Charles Lindbergh. Charles Coughlin and Senators Wheeler. Nye and Reynolds, the latter feeing Chairman of the Sen ate Military Affairs Committee and publisher of The Vindicator, notorious organ of Mr. Reynolds brand of “Americanism.” The tone of the meeting was re flected in the ringing sentence of one speaker: ‘Let us now highly resolve that the next Congress of the United States does not have a Jew or a Jew-dealer in it." The coming elections will deter mine whether this verminous breed Bhail guide the destiny of Amer ica. The true Americans are gal vanized to see that it does not happen. They need the help of every freeman who wants to pre serve his freedom. The Union for Democratic Action expressed the point of view of the latter in a statement saying: "We are oppos ed to appeasers. anti-Democrats, anti-Semites and all the paid agents of reaction. We are oppos ed to them everywhere, including Congress.” Repeating a technique which —theatre; MMI W. 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Mr. Martin Dies' group said that "if this movement ever reaches its mulfill ment in the XaziScation of the American Government, we shall find ourselves bearing a striking resemblance to the hateful thing against which we are now mobil izing our total resources.” Because of the hard-hitting, straight-speaking of the real ene mies of un- Americanism, many candidates for Congress are find ing it desirable to dissociate themselves from ar.ti-Semitism. Thus, within the past few weeks. William B. Barry of Long Island, Martin L. Sweeney of Ohio and - f Lelar.d M. Ford of California have each issued public statements vig orously disclaiming an y anti- Semitic sentiments. The loss by William Murray. "Alfalfa Bili,” of the Ser.ator.al nomination in Ok lahoma: the beating which anti- Semitic- Jacob Thorkeison received in the Montana Republican Sena torial primaries and the indict ment of Leon de Aryan. Congres sional aspirant in California, may be regarded by candidates for of fice as reasonable straws as to the composition of the American elec torate when it is aroused. Who Are Anti-Semites? Voters going to the polls may ask: What are the criteria of an anti-Semite ? First, they should beware of the simplification of the issue: that only one who speaks out against the Jews is an anti- Semite. There is a much broader issue at stake. Any man who is an anti-American is an ar.ti- Semite. Anti-Americans are those who speak and act contrary to every sound instinct and express ion of a free, liberal, democratic America. Recently, a Federal Grand Jury handed down indictments ir. Washington against 27 men ar.d 1 woman.. It also listed publications and organizations which they used | to disseminate their ideas for the subversion of the morale of the armed forces. It also cited spe cifically certain expression o f : points of view which were labeled 1 as pro-Axis propaganda. The use , J of the Federal Grand Jury indict- ■ 1 ment as one of testing stones for » 1 anti-Semitism and anti-American- • ism is. therefore, in order for vot- 1 ers wanting to make the best use : of their ballots. I One of the organizations was : the National Committee to Keep America Out of Foreign Wars. It was organized by Republican Hamilton Fish of New York in 1939 before his famous trip to Germany, from which he returned with cordial endorsements of cer tain Nazi programs. Members of that body’s executive committee included these Congressmen: Re publican Harold Knutson of Min nesota, Democratic Martin L. Sweeney, Republican J. William Ditter of Pennsylvania, Republi can Leland M. Ford and Republi can John M. Robison of Kentucky. It is remarkable to note that many of the expressions which the Grand Jury used as the basis for its indictment were excerpts from or variations of similar sentiments expressed on the floors of the House and the Senate. There was, for example, the “Judas" speech THE SOUTHERN JEWISH WEEKLY BRESLAU NAMED HEAD OF ZIONIST CONVENTION PROGRAM COMMITTEE H B r" V ' - ' > -„ J Washington. D. C. —Judge Louis E. Levinthal. President of the Zionist Organization of America, today announced the appointment of Rabbi Isadcre Breslau of this city, a member of the National Executive and former Executive Director of the organization, as Chairman of the Program Com mittee for the 45th Annual Con . rentier, of the Z. O. A. which will be held on October 14-17 at the Hotel New Yorker. New York City. of Republican Clare Hoffman of Michigan which many of the in dividuals and organizations listed in the indictment helped to distrib ute to the number of 145.000 copes. "These men. like Judas." said the Congressman, "who be trayed his master, would, before we are fairly in this war. betray our people, surrender our inde pendence. connive to destroy our liberty and our freedom.” One of the pro-Axis arguments listed in the indictment was the statement that the blood o f negroes, whites and Jews was be ing indiscriminately mingled in blood banks to create a mongrel America. Curously enough, vir tually the same argument is made almost daily in Congress by Mis sissippi's John E. Rankin. It's strange that Flanders Hall, which printed George Sylvester Viereck documents, should be list ed as a Nazi publishing house, but that Stephen A. Day. Republican Congressman from Illinois, who helped circulate its volumes, is assumed to be a perfectly sound American. John E. Rankin, the bar.e of existence of every one of the handful of Jewish Congress men. took the unusual step the other day of introducing House Resolution 515, which called for the expunging from the Record of an editorial from PM which Ralph Ingersoll had written and which Congressman Sol Bloom had had inserted. Next to Jews and Ne groes. Rankin's chief abomination is New York's liberal tabloid. PM. which he charges is trying to de stroy America by pointing out that Negro and white blood in blood banks are indistinguishable. The Dies Committee attacked the Union for Democratic Action. Although it exposed every Com munist organization and most that were not, it never bothered with any of the long list of groups now listed in the Washington Grand Jury’s indictment. The Ku Klux Klan and Silver Shirts, two of those listed, frequently had high praise for Martin Dies of Texas. Congressman Samuel Dick stein recalled the other day: "When as far back as 1933 and 1934. I exposed a number of dang erous spies and Fascist agents in this country, members ridiculed my attempts to get Congress to take some action against these sinister forces.” But in 1942. al most the same thing could be said. Referring to a resolution (No. 433 • which he introduced a few weeks ago, providing for an in quiry’ into the alien problem. Dick stein added: ‘"Hie House, aroused by misleading arguments of a few’ people who are dead set against any legislation introduced by any liberal Member of the House, de feated this resolution.” Members of Congress Who are some of those mem bers ? Look for a moment at Burton K. Wheeler, who so abominates Senator James E. Murray, his Democratic colleague from Mon tana. that he went into the Demo cratic primaries to try to defeat him. Having failed. Wheeler is expected to try to help elect a Re publican. who will not be a New Dealer. Wellington Rankin, broth er of isolationist Jeanette Rankin, is the man. Senator W. Lee O’Daniel won in Texas Democratic primaries al most enough votes to need no run off. Fortunately, there is still a chance to help beat this man whose labor-baiting is his only oc cupation in Congress. He was ex posed recently as an associate of Lewis Valentine Ulrey, Texas bus iness man. in the Christian Amer ican organization o f Houston. O'Daniel is one of its leaders. Ul rey says the “New Dealers here and in Britain will join Stalin in establishing world Bolshevism i Talmudsm i under the skilful guidance of Jewish international- LSt-5 . . . Sad to say. Senator O Daniel s views on labor are shared by a number of Jewish leaders in Tex as. Perhaps it is inevitable for people to take on the ideological coloratin of their environment, but it is still pitiful that, in 1942. Jews anywhere should be so unen- Ightened as not to realize that the country which a Senator O'Daniel would create and rule would have no room for Jews any more than it would for “labor agitators." There were Jews in Germany too who were sympathetic to Hitler's views on “unruly" labor. Congressman William B. Barry, even though he disclaims anti- Semitism. must be judged by his general record in Congress. He is the man who said that the lend lease bill was “a death blow for freedom." Texans might like to remember that no less authoritative a body than the Federal Communications Commission said of Martin Dies that he "received as many favor able references in Axis propagan da to this country as any living American public figure. His opin ions were quoted by the Axis without criticism at any time.” Senator Champ Clark of Mis souri: "Britain, and France have placed themselves in the role of aggressors and neither deserve our support, nor shall they have it." Citizens of Michigan well re member Gerald L. K. Smith. It i $1 PER MONTH INSURES YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY { Husband, wife and children—Any member and all ages from to T 5 years of age. Each member Increases to $1,006. Write for Free Sample Policy. I FEDERAL MUTUAL LIFE WE FOLLOW THE STORK 1037 E. BTH ST. PHONE 5-130® THERE’S ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW . . . AT the following THEATRES • FLORIDA : ARCADE : EMPRESS PALACE : CAPITOL SAN MARCO : ROXY —: IMPERIAL BRENTWOOD : FAIRFAX Friday, August 14 jJ must bewilder them to although he runs for tn. 18, States Senate. hish-s: V-iB body in America., his The Cross And The na * ?a B named in the Wash:.- ?♦,*?' J Jury indictment as inspiration. Senator dorsed Smith's gratulating him with upon your first edition" a-deBI gressman Roy Woidruf; ,!■» • igan occasionally has inser^B cerpts from the sheet in the iS gressional Record. ’ Michigan seems to S pav> thj It has Clare ar.d alscß publican Paul Shafer of sB ! Creek, a man who shares bB ■ man’s views. M Other names to remember B those of Congressman Josij Johns. Republican of Wiscoß Congressman James Van &-,+■ Altoona Pa.. Senator C. Wavlß Brooks of Illinois. Cor.gresß Leland M. Ford of Santa Mol and Thomas A. 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