Common Sense (142 issues) [with] The Coming Red Dictatorship broadside

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A substantial, but far from complete, run of Common Sense, one of the most enduring and important far right newspapers of the 20th century. Founded in 1947 by Conde McGinley, the paper began a year earlier as Think (also The Think and Think Weekly), and described itself as "the nation's anti-Communist newspaper." However, early on the paper became shrill in its denunciation of Jews and Zionism and by 1954 McGinley and Common Sense came under the scrutiny of the Velde Committee, Committee on Un-American Activities, in their Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups, which determined that the paper's "patriotic claims provide poor disguise, however, for some of the most vitriolic hate propaganda ever to come to the attention of the committee" (p. 10). Many prominent anti-Semites contributed to the paper including Eustace Mullins, Fred Weiss, Elizabeth Dilling, Revilo P. Oliver, Eugene Sanctuary, Charles B. Hudson, Lyrl Clark van Hyning, Marilyn Allen, Lt. Gen. P. A. del Valle (who later became President of Christian Educational Association), Don Bell, etc. McGinley founded the Christian Educational Association in 1954 to publish Common Sense and other right wing pamphlets, and for a time one of its primary benefactors was Benjamin H. Freedman, a Jewish-born millionaire who'd converted to Christianity. McGinley closely collaborated with James Madole and the National Renaissance Party and for a time printed much of that group's propaganda. McGinley died in 1963 and editorship was passed to Katherine Littig who continued the paper until 1972 when she left for Canada to join the Catholic community of St. Jovite. Many supporters believed COINTELPRO was behind the paper's dissolution (Bolton, p. 339). Issues included: 202, 212, 214, 216, 217, 230, 246, 247, 251, 252, 254, 255, 258, 259, 263, 264, 268, 344, 360, 361, 371-373, 376-378, 380, 381, 383, 387, 388, 390, 393-405, 407, 409, 411-417, 423, 426, 436, 438, 440, 442, 445-448, 453, 454, 456, 460-462, 464-466, 468, 470, 472, 474, 477-479, 486, 491-493, 495, 498, 501, 502, 505-509, 511, 512, 514-525, 528, 530, 532, 536-540, 543, 544, 547, 548, 552, 553, 556-561, 564, 567, 568, 570, 571, 576, 581, 582, 587, 592, 594-597, 600. Also included is the Common Sense supplement broadside, The Coming Red Dictatorship: Asiatic Marxist Jews Control Entire World As Last World War Commences. Thousands of Plotters Placed in Key Positions by Invisible Government. Few Were Ever Elected." Tabloid format printed in black on cheap newsprint, each issue 4 p., illus. Issues range from Good to Near Fine with most issues solidly VG. A couple of issues with incredibly tender folds, some splitting; another handful of issues have Wilcox Collection stamps. References: Bolton, Kerry. Yockey: A Fascist Odyssey. London: Arktos, 2018; Committee on Un-American Activities. Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups. Washington, D. C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954. For McGinley and Common Sense, see pgs. 10-17. N° de ref. del artículo 9482

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Título: Common Sense (142 issues) [with] The Coming ...
Editorial: Christian Educational Association, Union, N.J.
Año de publicación: 1972