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Lastly arise the "Gimme Groups" such as the American Legion, Van Zandt's "Veterans of Foreign Wars" and the publicity seeking "D. A. R." Mouth-filling, ear-catching, windy phrases reeking with "patriotism", "Americanism", "loyalty", "love of your country" and the rest; meaning nothing, with no single breath of sincerity in them, with but one thought in mind and that material gain, either in the medium of cash or power through votes, are the tricks of the trade to these groups. The breath of their life is to support dollar patriots and to receive in return the support...
Commander Van Zandt of the Veterans of Foreign Wars has been the most conspicuous victim of the attack of the new movement, but the commander obligingly stuck his neck out right in the path of the arrows. Having branded the Veterans of Future Wars as yellow, Mr. Van Zandt was accused of being the "tool of Moscow" in his unpatriotic efforts to discredit America's future soldiers. Professional patriots belong to the lowest intellectual group in the country, and it should not be hard to beat them with equal success in future encounters...
These findings may have satisfied the Miami Chamber of Commerce, the Coral Gables Post of the American Legion, and other horrified groups which demanded investigations. But the verdict did not satisfy the Veterans of Foreign Wars, whose Commander-in-Chief, James E. Van Zandt, at Washington indignantly cried "Whitewash!", demanded that the President "punish officials responsible," declared that three times before the hurricane hit, veterans' committees had asked their superiors to be evacuated, only to be repulsed by guards...
PREPARE FOR FLOOD OF PROTESTS FROM OVERSEAS VETERANS WHO WILL RESENT USE OF TITLE "LEGIONARY" WITH NAME OF JAMES E. VAN ZANDT UNDER CUT P. 14 MAY 20 ISSUE TIME. AS NATIONAL COMMANDER VETERANS FOREIGN WARS, VAN ZANDT REPRESENTS NATION'S OVERSEAS VETERANS. TITLE "LEGIONARY" APPROPRIATE FOR BELGRANO BUT EXTREMELY MISLEADING AND ERRONEOUS FOR PROPER IDENTIFICATION OF VAN ZANDT...
...time thus gained veterans were to put pressure on the President to sign the bill, on Senators to gain the necessary votes to override a veto. Commander Van Zandt asked "a million Americans''* to demand the Patman Bill's final enactment. Commander Belgrano, beaten but wishing to retire from the field with the honors of war, called on Legionaries for similar demonstrations. Telegrams at the rate of 250 an hour flooded Washington, 15,000 were delivered at the White House one day. And Father Coughlin who takes credit for having defeated the World Court, tried his influence...