…at Bronx, NY isolationist rally:
“When we get through with the Jews in America, they’ll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.”
Father Charles Edward Coughlin (1891–1979) was a Roman Catholic priest in Royal Oak, Michigan, teacher at Assumption College, in Windsor, Ontario, and US radio personality in the 1930s. More than forty million tuned in to his weekly radio broadcasts. By 1934, Coughlin was the preeminent Roman Catholic spokesman on political and financial issues.
Via his virulently anti–Semitic newspaper Social Justice, and his inflammatory broadcasts, Coughlin plied his trade of hate. The Reverend Walton E. Cole, a Unitarian minister, in Toledo, Ohio, tried to no avail to prevail upon the Roman Catholic hierarchy to have Coughlin stopped.
In 1942, four years and a torrent of anti–Semitic hatred later, the new bishop of Detroit (finally) ordered Coughlin to cease his “political” activities.