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UNDER COVER AMERICA'S DOOM SQUAD 250 251 and she motioned to me. I had sent her a booklet reprinted by America to live first in England, then France, then was re- the'Ku Klux Klan.from the'Dearborn Independent and was ported to be considering the buying of a home in Germany-- seemed confused with and uncertain of himself, but a hero. curious to know what she thought of it. with the mob. He fitted the description of the ideal American "That ... that booklet was excellent," she said, without disclosing the name in public. "Get me ten more". fuehrer as given by JoeAMcWilliams:. In the audience, too, I recognized Dr. Ulrich D.'Marquard, a Wall Street broker, and a Prussian with emphatic Nazi views In a few years we will need a leader who will be like a knight. of old. A man in shining armor. A champion of the people. A man whom I had. interviewed with a'Christian Front-er. And I who is a mystic. A man that the mob can look up to-but not also saw Joe'McWilliams in the act of posing for a flock of touch. A man who has come from the people, but has reached so photographers. The auditorium was packed as the master of high that they dare not call him their own, but one appointed by ceremonies asked the audience to singGod Bless America. An God to speak for them! That's what this country needs. That's. angry howl of boos greeted the request and was an index to what we'll need to bring together our forces for a nationalist what followed later. Irving/Berlin's song was always booed America. and never sung at "patriotic" meetings because Berlin hap- pened to be an American Jew. We did not sing God Bless And McWilliams was present this night also, and shared America that night. the spotlight with Lindbergh through a peculiar stroke of cir- cumstances. Joe had made himself conspicuous to camera men, and ardent orator, plunged into his topic without prelimi- and some of the respectable America First-ers fearing that the. meeting might be given a black eye because of his presence, you no more regard for mankind, Mr. President, than to told John T.tFlynn. Hot tempered and courageous, Flynn bring total destruction? The worst that could happen would pounced on McWilliams with the fury of a panther and be a negotiated peace. We'll have it eventually. Why not clawed him through the microphone:. now?" John TFlynn, chairman, then read congratulatory "I repudiate the support of the Bund, the Communist and messages from Cardinal/O'Connell of Boston and Bishop the fascist parties. One of their leaders is in this hall tonight. Gerald/Shaughnessy of 'Seattle, after whicb he introduced. 'Lindbergh. CHRISTIAN FRONT NEWS The wildest demonstration I have ever heard met Lindbergh. It was unlike anything else I had known. A deep-throated, Usy 24 1940 unearthly, savage roar, chilling, frightening, sinister and awe- some. It was a frenzied mob-cheer adulating the hero of the COLONEL'LINDBERGH IS A PATRIOT! hour in reckless hysteria.. And what of the blond god who for six full minutes smiled In the words of Captain Eddia Rickeabeckc.Amer like an adolescent as the mob stood to its feet, waved flags, quate national defense were "sound end fundamen threw kisses and frenziedly rendered the Nazi salute? Lind- ickenbacker,with the .fmence bergh impressed me as the most naive of men politically. He did not impress me either as an organizer or a leader--but as THE CHRISTIAN FRONT a man who, while himself being led by the nose, had a tre- Srooktyn Unit Prespect Hal, Broolbya mendous capacity to lead the masses by serving as their idol owing to his gift of personal magnetism for a certain class of Lindbergh was the hero or countless American Fascist groups, men and women. Lindbergh--who had rurned his back to including the Christian Front