SECRET AGENTS ARRIVE IN AMERICA
for explicit instructions on how to carry
antagonizing the entire country.
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on propaganda without
In October, 1933, Royal Scott Gulden (who has no connec
tion with the mustard business, but is a distant relative of the
head of it) who had been cooperating with Emerson, tried to
organize an espionage system to watch Communists. In this
,
effort
Gulden
enlisted the aid of Fred R. Marvin, a professional
patriot. At three o clock on the afternoon of March 10, 1934, a
very secret meeting was called by Gulden at 139 East 57th Street.
Present were Gulden, J. Schmidt and William Dudley
head of the Silver Shirts.
The meeting
play on
Pelley,
decided to adopt anti-semitic propaganda to
as part of the first campaign to at
was in a serious economic crisis with
country
considerable unrest throughout the land. Both Hitler and Mus
solini got into power in periods of great unrest by promising
peace and security to the bewildered people. Men of means were
latent anti-semitism
tract followers.
The
by fears of "revolution" and this group, directed by
Emerson, began to preach that the revolution might come any
minute and that he Jews were responsible for Moscow, the
terrified
Third International, the Mississippi flood and anything else that
troubled the people. When the meeting ended the "Order of
* had been born
and Royal Scott Gulden appointed Secre
tary to direct espionage and propaganda.
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From
the very beginning Emerson tried to get people into
which would provide access to important information.
On February 22, 1934, a merger of the Republican Senatorial
and Congressional Campaign Committees to conduct the Party s
places
Congressional campaign independent of the Republican National
Committee was announced in a joint statement by Senator Daniel
*
Still functioning on a minor scale. The Fifth Column has since these
early beginnings established much more efficient groups.