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the ace of racketeers in patriotism, the president-editor of the
also eked out a few pennies by distributing the
National
Republic
"Protocols
of the Elders of
Zion."
Today, however, he confines
himself chiefly to fighting Communism, spreading race hatred only
when it is paid for in advertisements. Books distributed by Nazi
such
propagandists in furthering their anti-democratic campaign
books as T.N.T. by Colonel Edwin Hadley and The Conflict of
the Ages find space in the National Republic s pages. Colonel
Hadley headed the Paul Reveres which tried to organize fascist
groups on American university campuses, and The Conflict of
the Ages devotes a full chapter to the Nazi
authenticity of the "Protocols."
show the type of
"proofs"
of the
willing to
the use of
by permitting
their names, the sponsors, consciously or unconsciously, aid him
in his anti-American activities.
The detailed aims of the National Republic are to provide a
I
mention these
if he
disseminate
to
is
paid for
it.
stuff Steele
is
And
twenty-three hundred editors, to defend
American institutions against subversive radicalism; a national
service
"weekly
to
information service on subversive organizations and activities;
an Americanization bureau serving schools, colleges and patri
otic groups;
conducted for the public good from Washington,
D. C., by nationally
known
leaders."
The procedure
good"
of conducting the organization "for the public
includes high-pressuring the shekels from the suckers.
Steele, a
former newspaperman, learned from his association with
that other arch-patriot, Jung. So when Steele established his
own racket, he found one of his early aids in former Senator
Robinson of Indiana. Robinson was closely tied up with the
Ku Klux
ticians
Klan.
Through Robinson and through other
reached with the cry
"Save
America,"
poli
he got a long
list
of prominent sponsors and gradually increased it until now it
reads like a Who s Who of reactionary industrialists and innocent
politicians. With letters of introduction from Senator Robinson,