Word: yaas
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...first act began last September, when James' organization began its Sunday afternoon "discussion groups". The Yankee-American Action quickly evolved upon a sickeningly fascist pattern. Attracting members with the homespun slogan of "Yankee traditions", the YAA was soon busy disseminating thinly disguised anti-Catholic propaganda. Once they were in, Mr. James gave them arm bands, had them buy red shirts, and revealed to them the deeper aim of the organization: founding a totalitarian, one-party state in which Catholics would have no part. Pamphlets were publicly distributed, for example, in which James railed against "this Mick pestilence" and said, "Rome...