![]() ![]() :ollowers of his Christian Nationalist Crusade paid more :han $325,000 in 1967, long after’ he had reached his peak )f power, for his pamphlets and books that excoriated “the lew‐hited Nations,” “black savages ruining our cities” and scores of other targets. N,lencken called “the greatest ‐abble‐rouser since Peter the Hermit,” talked to the people who agreed with him on the platform and through the mails. “There is nothing worse, noting more deadly,” he said in an interview a few years ago, “than never getting to talk to anyone but people who agree with you.” Smith, whose career as a master extremist began in 1934 and continued until his death, seemed mystified that because he.was anti black, anti‐semitic, anti‐Catholic and pro‐Fascist, he was shunned by many persons he would have liked to know. Smith often expressed regret that “so many millions of my fellow Americans just don't like me.” Smith's nephew.Īlthingh he was proud of being a purveyor of antiSemitism and other forms of religious and racial bigotry, Gerald L. Smith, succeeded him as national director of the Crusade, accordiag to the Crusade vice president, Roland Morgan, Mr. ![]()
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