The Charlotte News
Tuesday, March 18, 1941
ONE EDITORIAL
More Clear
We Begin To Suspect One Thing Robert Means
Gradually what Robert Rice Reynolds is about becomes more clear.
When he started the American Vindicator, he claimed that it was directed at undesirable aliens. But what his idea of an "undesirable alien" is we think we begin now to understand.
In the March issue of the sheet he prints the following under a Rome dateline, though the news service source is not given:
The Italian press has unlimbered its heavy guns in violent attack upon American "bellicosity and intervention," for which Jews were held responsible. Virginio Gayda... warned that the anti-Semitism "which already dominates Europe" is likely to spread to the United States if the "Jewish program of agitation" continues.
That, of course, is the standard Hitler falsehood which has it that a gang of international Jewish financiers plots to destroy civilization and hand it over to the Communists (now quaintly enough the allies of the Nazi). And are therefore engaged in promoting war among the nations, at once to line their own pockets and to bring on the desired debacle.
Robert Rice Reynolds carefully does not say that he approves this tale. It isn't politic to say so now. But he does print it, just as Coughlin does, and gives it wide circulation among the pussyheads who read the Vindicator as a Bible. And he carefully does not say that he disagrees with it or say that it is a falsehood.
As we declared, Robert's principles and his purposes begin to be clearer.
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