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Thus radio Berlin tried to make capital of the news that the Coughlinite weekly Social Justice had been barred from the U.S. mails. The crackdown on Coughlin was not going to stop there. Attorney.General Biddle announced that he would ask a Federal grand jury (the same jury which nailed Nazi Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck and Ham Fish's Secretary George Hill) to indict Social Justice for sedition, on grounds of peddling "enemy propaganda" and "a systematic and unscrupulous attack upon the war effort of our nation, both civilian and military...
...safety of the people." Again & again Government men have underlined the no-building-except-for-war theme. But much nonwar building (both private and public) has gone on nonetheless. Lately, as builders' hoards of scarce materials have dwindled, bootlegging has been growing. This week comes the inevitable crackdown...
...meaning of this crackdown was both less and more serious than at first appeared. Cecil Brown was still permitted to file cables-in which, at the censor's discretion, he could still say about what he pleased aside from military matters...
What the U.S. wants from Argentina and all the Americas is threefold: 1) speedy production of critical materials such as tin and rubber; 2) complete military cooperation with U.S. use of bases at strategic points; 3) a crackdown on Axis propagandists and German business firms "bootlegging" war materials through the Atlantic blockade. To get these, the U.S. has dollars, ships, markets and World War II's realism to bargain with in the smoke-filled committee rooms of the Itamaraty Palace...
...abroad without first cracking down on defense strikes at home. They were bolting out of anger at John L. Lewis, and the Administration's pat-a-cake labor policy. Some of these could be wheedled or hammered into line, some could be bought with a promise of a crackdown on Lewis. But the biggest opposition came from men who on each measure had searched their minds and their hearts honestly and with humility, who wanted always to vote to keep...