Serpents and Vipers

Monday, Aug. 23, 1943
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Most fantastic of all to "George Pagnanelli" was the diversity of Hitler's pup pets, who willingly locked together in a crazy, contradictory shambles of anti-Semitism and Führer-worship. Anti-Catholic Ku-Kluxers paraded the streets with Catholic members of the Army of Christ.

Czarist ex-officer Count Anastase Andreivitch Vonsiatskoy-Vonsiatsky, friend of Fritz Kuhn and former worker in the Baldwin Locomotive Works, was on the same side of the fence as Robert Jordan, Fuhrer of the Negro Ethiopian Pacific Movement, Inc. Mr. Jordan "proudly wired Hitler that the Negro people of the world were with him in his fight against injustice," greatly embarrassed the Japanese by claiming blood relationship.

Weeping Mothers. Carlson's is no all-male show. Nazi-admirer Dr. Maude S. DeLand also approved of the Japs because, she explained, "they always returned borrowed books." Mrs. Mary Tappendorf, of the Chicago Mothers, was rent with anguish over the WACS: "What do they want to do with girls in the front lines? I'll tell you-It's SEX-and that's Mrs. Eleanor's idea, too. . . . They tell [the boys] they'll go insane without it."

As "delegate" of the fascist Paul Revere Sentinels, "George Pagnanelli" went to Washington to sabotage passage of the Lend-Lease bill. Mothers' Movement Führine Elizabeth Dilling and "a wild, milling mob of women" welcomed him. "My thundering herd," she screamed, "how do you like it? . . . Come on, mothers. Let's picket the Senate Building."

One woman began to weep. "Her name is Miss Rooney," said a friend. "She always cries." And whenever she cried a woman from South Bend, Ind., invariably followed. Soon scores of weepers had been touched off, were brusquely ordered to restrain themselves until a more critical moment. Once, at dinner, "Mrs. Dilling suddenly started to sing a mildly ribald song about a young lady and her fiance. Later she stuck her thumb into the air, 'snatched' at [it] with her left hand and made it 'disappear.' She laughed hysterically while she pinched her left arm'. . . ."

Also prominent among the women was Mrs. Lois de Lafayette Washburn, who always signed her letters "T.N.T." More shocking to "Pagnanelli" than her leaving the shade up while undressing was her insistence that Pearl Harbor had been secretly arranged by the New Deal. "George Pagnanelli" was given the eagle emblem of Mrs. Washburn's Yankee Minuteman. "I'd better run back to the hotel and pack up," she shrieked. "The serpents and vipers are after us." *

Stinkweeds, Slingshots, Secretaries. To win the devotion of his fascist friends, "George Pagnanelli" published an anti-Semitic sheet called the Christian Defender. One of its slogans: "Free America from Stinkweeds." Father Coughlin asked for two copies every week.

Through the Defender's good name, Editor "Pagnanelli" met fascist James True, who had taken out a patent for his "kike-killer"—a truncheon that came in two sizes, one for use by ladies.