by Rigorous Intuition » Sun Dec 25, 2005 3:02 pm
More on George Deatherage in Charles Higham's American Swastika:<br><br>Evidence showed that George Deatherage had made his home near an army camp in West Virginia, where he entertained officers and infiltrated their minds with thoughts of Fascist revolution. Absentee defendant James True was discovered to have talked with Deatherage about killing the President. (p 65)<br><br><br>In 1937, [Deatherage] directly connected himself to the Nazi government, drawing his military conferes into the web. His chief contact was Manfred von Killinger, Nazi consul in San Francisco....<br><br>Deatherage formed the American Nationalist Federation, an organization that pledged support in the coming counterrevolution against the alleged Communist uprising.... Deatherage's right-hand man was the White Russian Vladimir Kositzin, who would bring in the White Russian Fascists.<br><br>Deatherage kept in close touch with Berlin and with Ulrich von Gienanth, military attache at the German embassy in Washington. When Deatherage asked von Gienanth how Hitler got started, the military officer told him that it was also with a small amount of money, a brewery headquarters, and propaganda leaflets.... He encouraged Deatherage to develop a policy of developing anti-Jewish feeling, saying there was ten times more of that in the United States than there was in Germany before Hitler's rise to power (p. 82)<br><br>In May 1939...Deatherage...appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.... The Committee heard the witnesses out and scored them chiefly on anti-Semitism, leaving their anti-Communist remarks aside. Reference was made to such predictions by Deatherage in print as "the gutters will soon run with the blood of Jews." ... <br><br>The effect of the Dies Committeee hearing...was that it was difficult for ...Deatherage to operate in the matter of the proposed coup d'etat. The banner of intended revolution passed into the hands of the leaders of the Christian Front movment, with Father Charles Coughlin presiding behind the scenes. (p. 85-86)<br><br> <p></p><i></i>