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a) i) OUr Number 134 May 16, 1942 Page 2 DETROIT FIFTH COLUMNIST REFRIN{S ENDORSEMENT BY SENATOR REYNOLDS Current Issue of Smith! es end Flag Also Announces Smith's Candidacy for U, S. Senate The Mey issue of The Cross and The Flag, the seditious magazine being published in Detroit by Gerald Le Een ath, ex-Silver Shirter No. 3223, devotes its entire back page to a promotional article based on an endorsement received from Senator Robert R. Reynolds of North Cerolina (see The Hour for April 18 and May 2). At the top of the page are several lines of bold type reading: "United States Senator Robert Re Reynolds, Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee, said, when interviewed by tho Associated Press concerning THE CROSS AND THE FLAGs «.." The item then proceeds to quote Senator Reynolds! atatement endorsing Smith's subversive sheet which, in the Senator's words, stands "for the things I have stood for for many years." The article also quotes from a personal letter re- ceived by Smith from Reynolds, congratulating the Detroit fifth columnist on the first edition of The Cross and The Flage Smith proudly remarks, "This is merely one of the Ehonsande oF testivoniele that have come in, favorable to this crusading, patriotio journal." Emboldened by the support he is receiving from congressmen such as Senator Reynolds, Gerald L. Ke Smith strikes out with increasing venom against the Administration in his current issue. In his characteristic demagogic style, he attacks the “bureaucrats and politicians" in Washing- ton for their supposedly incompetent prosecution of the ware The tempo- rary setbacks suffered by the U. S. armed forces in the Pacific are pic- tured by Smith as “bloody circumstances" brought about by "boondogeling bureaucrats and racketeers in Washington, who not only should be fired but should be locked in jail for the duration." The Government investi- gation of Father Coughlin's pro-Nazi activities is represented as a “com- munist" plot to perseoute the Royal Oak priest. Two pages are given over to reprinting an attack by Congressman Martin Dies on Vice-President Henry Wallace. Some individuals, however, come in for hearty praise in the latest issue of Smith's seditious journal. They are Charles woLtedbergh, the Naziphile flyer who so energetically strove to prevent this country from being prepared to face the Axis onslaught; Father Charles E.*Coughlin, uptil recently Goebbels! foremost U. S. spokesman; Father Edward Lodge urrean, eastern Fuehrer of the Christian Front; Elizabeth Dilling, no~ torious anti-Semitic propagandist; Dr. Gerald Beifirod, Kansas pro-Axis agitatoy; Col. Robert/# Cormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune; Col. Je uefpabterson, publisher of the New York Daily News; Eleanor Patterson, publisher of the Wsshington Times-Herald; William Randolph -Hearst; Con= @ressman Marti: ¥ fes;, and Senator Robert R. ‘Reynolds. The traitor Smith, who once boasted to his jailbird boss Pelley of forming the first Silver Shirt stormtroop band in the United States, describes the above-mentioned individuals as "fearless Americans who have exposed the subterranean oper- ations of the Red revolutionaries without mercy.” (ore) aan fi The contents of The Hour are not copyrighted and may be freely reprinted