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Charles Lindbergh — Part 12
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This was the clue for ..ch Nazi sympathizers wer iduinge Immediately,
plans were’launched to use she General, who had spoke so approvingly of Na-
tional Socialism and Fascism, as the nucleus around whom would rally all the
various groups which were then operating independently of each other. Moseley
is powerful enough, it was argued, to force all the jealous, little, would-be
Fihrere to give up their own claims to leadership.
Blueprints were drawn up for the unificatione Important personages, whose
names are well known in the United States, were to be pillars of the movement.
Some were consulted, others were in complete ignorance of the plot. Congress-
man Martin Dies himself was to be one of the mainstays, but when Dies demon-
strated his disinclination to cooperate by having Moseley subpoenaed to appear
before his Committee, Mrs. Teslie Fry, one of the originators of the plot,
“spilled the beans" and revealed the entire scheme in the July, 1939, issue of
the "Christian Free Press", organ of the "Militant Christien Patriots".
Mrs. Fry's article, covering three and a half pages and captioned "Sinister
Farce = The Hellish Conspiracy", gave all the details of the scheme. The most
important paragraphs, containing the names of the men who were to head the
movement under Moseley's generalship, are reproduced on page 2. The majority
of these names are known as those of well known Nazi agitatorae
The Bundits, of course, fell in line with the campaign and circulated win-
dow stickers (illustration on page 2) advocating the election of Moseley to
the Presidency of the United States. At the same time, the Deutscher Weokruf
und Beobachter, official organ of the Bund, on December 22, 1938, declared in
a leading front-page story that Moseley was THE man of the hour, captioning
the article (illustration on page 2): "General Moseley vs. War Makers -
Scores Faruch's Warnings of War as a Crime".
Almost two and a half years later, on May 1, 1941 to be exact, the Deut-
scher Weckruf und Seobachter once again announced (illustration on page 3)
thet a new "Man on Horseback" had arisen: Charles A. Lindbergh!
As though sensing with clairvoyant powers, a year previous (on July 1,
1940), Father Coughlin's "Social Justice” appeared on the stands with an ar-
ticle (illustration on page 3) in almost an exact parallel to the "Moseley for
President" drive. This article urged the election of Charles A. Lindbergh as
Vice President, the Presidency being tendered to Wendell Le Willkie, who was
at that time still a question mark in the eyes of all Nazi sympathizerse
Los Angeles Bundits went even further. They wanted to see the flying Col-
onel ensconced in the White House. On September 10, 1940, a mass meeting (11~
lustration on page 3) was held at the Embassy Auditorium in Los Angeles, under
the auspices of the "True Americans", headed by Harold A. Sparling, subversiv-
ist par excellence. In his speech, Sparling cried for the drafting of Lind=
bergh for the Presidency and Senator Burton Ke. Wheeler for the Vice-Presidency
As if to tie together attempts of former years and those of the present,
Pelley, in his "Roll-Call" of April 14, 1941, named Lindbergh with Henry Ford,
Senator Wheeler and General Moseley as the new leaders of the nation “({1lus~-
tration on page 3), gathering together in a neat bundle the Four Horsemen of
thes present Apocalypse. :
The question today, in view of the endeavors being made to unite under
Lindbergh, resolves itself into whether Lindbergh will follor the honorable
example set by General Butler, or allow himself to become the Mihrer of the
foes of Democracy by following in the footsteps of General Moseley. Butler
refused to be knizhted a traitor; Moseley's actions speak for themselves.
Does the Lone Eagle yearn to become a Pegasus?
EERE EREAEREREREE
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