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ahaa pea nt esearch i 8 ill eh " J OUT Number 1354 May 16, 1942 Page 3 Smith's Political Plans The feature artiole in the ourrent issue of The Cross and The Flag is entitled "lly Heat's In the Ring.” In it Smith announces he will be a candidate in Michigan this fall for election to the U. &. Senate, The sort of backing he hopes to get is obvious. “I will be supported by the old-fashioned, Chrietian, American people,” he says. He makes an open bid for the support of Christian Front, German-American Bund elements by including this plank in his program: "“T 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 propagendizing of this 20th Century Benedict Arnold constitutes an ever-increasing danger to the American 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 Ke Smith, examining with particular care his tiss with certain members of the Congress of the United States. _ * * * om DETROITER CALLS FOR PRO-AXIS "PEACE" Robert sAspinvell 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~Axie propaganda. . Camouflaged 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.t "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 #imple and obvious reasons. . “Certainly we are called upon to defend ourselves against attack but on further reflection the people of the at- tacking nations are not a particularly warlike typse” (More) The contents “fh 1, Hour ere not copyrighted and may be freely reprinted