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Among those who worked with Hitler agents was Newton
Jenkins, director of the Coughlin-Lemke Third Party.* The
Detroit Priest and the Congressman were fully aware, preceding
and during the campaign,
that Jenkins supported Hitler and
was a Jew-baiter of the first order. They were aware of this while
they were appealing for Jewish votes. The Radio Priest and
the Congressman kept in constant touch with their campaign
manager and knew what sort of government Jenkins wanted.
Jenkins association with Nazis dates to the days preceding
the launching of the Presidential campaign. At that time he
participated in a secret conference held in Chicago with the
object of uniting the scattered fascist forces in the United States
to form a powerful fascist united front. Among those who
attended where Walter Kappe, Fritz Gissibl and Zahn three
active Hitler agents assigned to the Mid-West area; William
Dudley Pelley, leader of the Silver Shirts; Harry A. Jung, the
ultra-"patriot";
George W. Christians of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
head of the American fascists; and several others. The con
ference ended with an agreement to support a Third-Party
movement
directed by Jenkins.
Throughout the campaign Jenkins
nationalism, advocated
"party
patrols"
stressed
an exaggerated
similar to Hitler
s
storm
troops and adopted the Nazi Jew-baiting tactics. His first public
appearance with the Nazis was on October 30, 1935, at a meeting
held in Lincoln Turner Hall, 1005 Diversey Building, Chicago.
Uniformed storm troopers with the swastika on their arm bands
patrolled the room. In the course of his talk he said:
The
trouble with this country
now
is
due
to the
money powers and Jewish
politicians who control our Government. The Federal Treasury is being con
trolled by a Jew, Morgenthau, and a Jew, Eugene Meyer. The State, County
and our own Municipal Government is being controlled by Jewish politicians.
Our own Mayor signs what the Jews want him to sign. Nearly in every
* Father
attacks
Coughlin was
upon the
finally
President.
reprimanded by the Vatican for
his unpriestly