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> J ae) yy) OUT voor 134 May 16, 1942 Page 3 Smith's Political Plans The feature article in the ourrent issue of The Cross and The Flag is entitled "ity Heat's In the Ring.” In it Smith announces 6 a candidate in Michigen this fall for election to the U. & Senate. The sort of backing he hopes to get is obvious. “ZI will be supported by the old-fashioned, Christian, American people,” he says. He makes an open bid for the support of Christian Front, German-American Bund elemerts by including this plank in his program: "I shall defend the right of free speech and free press for Father Charles E. Coughlin, The treatment that this minister of Christ is receiving at the hands of the blood= thirsty Reds is unbelievable." With the United States engaged in a life and death struggle against the Axis powers, the seditious, disruptive propagandizing of this 20th Century Benedict Arnold constitutes an ever-increasing danger to the Americen people, The Hour therefore urges that the Department of Justice immediately suppress The Cross and The Fleg and conduct a thorough inves- tigation of the treasonable activities of Gerald Le K. Smith, examining with particular oare his ties with certain members of the Congress of the United States. _* © * # DETROITER CALLS FOR PRO-AXIS "PEACE" Robert, sAxepinvel of Detroit, who describes himself as "Pres- ident of The Lincoln Manufacturing Company -- Specialists in Flourescent Lighting," is ourrently distributing seditious literature through the . United States mails. This literature is in the form of a small, neatly printed pamphlet, entitled Our One Hope of Peace, which contains defeatist, pro~Axis propaganda. , Ceamouflaged as a pseudo-economic tract which presents the "sol- ution" of the world's present problems, Aspinwall's booklet contains such spurious comments as the followings _ "In the first world war we used a number of slogans to give popular expression to the object for which we were fighting. We were told this was 'The war to end wars’ <= that we were fighting for 'The preservation of freedom and democracy.' . "But to those of us who carefully study and analyze the situation there are many questions, many puzzling facts that do not seem to be clearly nor adequately explained by. such dimple end obvious reasons. i “Certainly wo aro called upon to defend ourselves against attack but on further reflection the people of the at~- teoking nations are not a particularly warlike types” my (ifore)} i) The contents yi The Hour are not copyrighted and may be freely reprinted