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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (8877)	11/8/1999 9:39:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Charley, I'm afraid Father Coughlin really was an anti-Semite (of the nativist variety), and he got worse as time went on (until the Church shut him up). Here's an excerpt from a piece dealing with the Christian Identity movement: Another influential individual who used the Protocols to promote anti-Semitism in the early twenties was Father Charles Coughlin. It was Father Coughlin, in the heart of the Depression, who laid the blame for the depression upon the international Jewish conspiracy. He also aligned himself with the neo-Nazi German-American Bund and spoke up in defense of Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany. In Coughlin's radio essay of February 1933 entitled "Banks and Gold," Coughlin cites the role of international bankers in the depression and suggests a larger conspiracy: "Long enough we have been the pawns and chattels of the modern pagans who have crucified us on the cross of gold. Through politeness only have we dignified them with the term of international bankers...I have dared not only to suggest to you but to implore you to organize legally and peacefully against the Morgans, the Kuhn-Loebs, the Rothschilds, the Dillon-Reades, the Federal Reserve banksters, the Mitchells, and the rest of that undeserving group, who without either the blood of patriotism or of Christianity flowing in their veins, have shackled the lives of men and of nations with the ponderous links of their golden chain." In 1938, Coughlin's followers took his advice and the "Christian Front" was organized in New York City. The Christian Front was composed of organizations such as: the Crusaders for Americanism, The American Nationalists, The American Patriots, the Christian Mobilizers, and the German American Bund. The Christian Front's political vehicle was a newspaper entitled Social Justice that often bore titles such as "Keep America for Americans" and "The Truth about the Jews." The Christian Front organized boycotts of Jewish establishments and established The Christian Index to Christian owned businesses. They advocated hiring Christians only, and emblazoned "Think Christian! Act Christian! Buy Christian!" on their materials. The Christian Front encouraged militancy in the face of increasing alien influences the nation. In so doing, Coughlin and the Christian Front proved to be the forerunners of the modern "Christian Identity" movement. users.interport.net Here is a long piece by Coughlin, dealing in part with one of your favorite subjects (it is, isn't it?), the Spanish Civil War. diac.com You can find a lot more Coughlin radio talks & etc. by going to the White Nationalist site -- www.stormfront.org -- and running a search for "Father Coughlin." Finally, there is a book about Coughlin you might be interested in: "Radio Priest: Father Charles Coughlin and the Rise of Hate Radio." amazon.com I can remember hating Father Coughlin (and Gerard K. Smith) myself, when I was a kid, growing up in a thorough-going anti-Nazi household.