FTR#602—The Plot to Seize
the White House—Interview with Jules Archer--(One 30-minute segment)
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Summary of FTR#602—(Note: The massive
volume of ‘For The Record’ programs about 9/11 and related topics is summarized
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listeners/readers a substantive grasp of this momentous event. It is
recommended that listeners use this description and e-mail it to others.) Supplementing previous
coverage of the fascist coup attempt of 1934, this broadcast is an emotional
professional milestone for Mr. Emory. When first undertaking this field of
research, he read investigative reporter, author and anti-fascist Jules
Archer’s The Plot to Seize the White House,
published in hardcover by Hawthorne books. A chronicle of the coup attempt, the
book is excerpted in AFA#10—available from SPITFIRE—as well as FTR#448.
After learning that Mr. Archer was alive, well and 90-years young, Mr. Emory
was delighted to find out that The Plot to Seize
the White House is being republished in paperback by Skyhorse Publishing. This interview
commemorates Mr. Archer’s work and celebrates the publishing of the paperback
edition of his book.
Program Highlights Include: Discussion of the Liberty League, a
consortium of wealthy and powerful industrialists and financiers who were the
core of the coup plot; the coup plotters’ enthusiastic support for Hitler and
Mussolini; the nomenclature of the members of the coup cabal; an overview of
the career of General Smedley Butler, the patriotic hero who betrayed the coup
plot; the media’s suppression of accurate reportage on the coup plot; the role
of a small number of investigative reporters who brought the coup to light; the
suppression of part of the report of the McCormack-Dickstein Committee [formed
to investigate the coup].
1.
This program constituted something of an “old home week” for
Mr. Emory. When first undertaking this field of research, he read investigative
reporter, author and anti-fascist Jules Archer’s The Plot to Seize the White
House, published in hardcover by Hawthorne books. A chronicle of the
fascist coup attempt of 1934, the book is excerpted in AFA#10—available from
SPITFIRE—as well as FTR#448.
After learning that Mr. Archer was alive, well and 90-years young, Mr. Emory
was delighted to find out that The Plot to Seize the White House is
being republished in paperback by Skyhorse
Publishing. This interview commemorates Mr. Archer’s work and celebrates
the publishing of the paperback edition of his book.
2.
Beginning with analysis of the career of Marine Corps
General Smedley Butler, the program highlights Butler’s singular popularity
among enlisted men. “A soldier’s general” Butler stood up for the
“grunt” and didn’t automatically favor the “Brass” [the officer corps]. This
quality made him the choice to be “The Man on the White Horse” to lead the coup
attempt. Men who served with Butler [such as former Marine Corps Commandant
David Shoup] praised Butler in the most extravagant terms. It is worth noting
that Butler was a practicing Quaker who came to feel that war, in general, was
“a racket.”
3.
After noting Butler’s extraordinary career, the discussion
sets forth two issues that might be unfamiliar to younger listeners: the
“bonus” from World War I and the Gold Standard. Soldiers who enlisted in World
War I were promised a cash bonus, which they never received. When the Great
Depression struck, many of the veterans organized and mobilized in order to
pressure the government to grant them the bonus to which they were entitled. A
march by the “Bonus Army” in Washington, D.C. was violently broken up by troops
under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, the first choice of the
plotters to lead the coup. Franklin Delano Roosevelt removed the U.S. from the
Gold Standard, a decision which alienated many of the wealthy. The coup
plotters wanted Smedley Butler to make a speech at an American Legion
convention in favor of the Gold Standard, the theory being that Butler could
present this as desirable to the bonus marchers. Their “bonus” would then be
backed by gold.
4.
Much of the program highlights points of information set forth in FTR#448
about the coup attempt itself. In particular, this portion of the broadcast
centers on the Liberty League, a domestic fascist organization that was the
backbone of the coup plot. (For information about the relationship of the Bush
family to the Liberty League and the milieu of the 1934 coup plot, see FTR#’s
475,
481.)
“ . . . Heading and directing the organization
were Du Pont and J.P. Morgan and Company men. . . . Heavy contributors to the
American Liberty League included the Pitcairn family (Pittsburgh Plate Glass),
Andrew W. Mellon Associates, Rockefeller Associates, E.F. Hutton Associates,
William S. Knudsen (General Motors), and the Pew family (Sun Oil Associates).
J. Howard Pew, longtime friend and supporter of Robert Welch, who later founded
the John Birch Society, was a generous patron, along with other members of the
Pew family, of extremist right-wing causes. . . . Two organizations affiliated with the league were openly fascist
and antilabor. One was the Sentinels of the Republic, financed chiefly by the
Pitcairn family and J. Howard Pew. Its members labeled the New Deal ‘Jewish
Communism’ and insisted ‘the old line of Americans of $1,200.00 a year want a
Hitler’. . . . ‘The brood of anti-New Deal organizations spawned by the Liberty
League,’ the New York Post subsequently charged, ‘are in turn spawning
fascism.’” (The Plot to Seize the White House; by Jules
Archer; Copyright 1973, 2007 by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.; Skyhorse Publishing
[SC]; ISBN-13: 978-1-60239-036-2; p. 31.)
5.
An important point of information for younger listeners
concerns the American Legion. Originally formed as a reactionary organization
used by the National Association of Manufacturers to break strikes, the
American Legion eventually cast off its reactionary leadership and became the
respectable veterans organization that it is to this day. In Butler’s time, the
Legion was seen as a possible recruiting ground for soldiers for the coup plot.
6.
Jules highlights some of the key figures in this drama
including: coup figure Gerald McGuire (a wealthy bond salesman who was selected
by the coup plotters as their primary contact with Smedley Butler); Robert S.
Clark (another coup plotter who had known Butler when serving in the military
in China); Grayson M-P.Murphy (another of the wealthy coup plotters, Murphy was
a Morgan partner and had been decorated by Benito Mussolini); Hanford McNider
(a wealthy former leader of the American Legion, seen as a possible second
choice to Butler to lead the coup.)
7.
In addition, Jules Archer sets forth some of the
journalists who worked to expose the coup: Philadelphia Record journalist
Paul Comly French (assigned to help cover the story as it was being revealed by
General Butler); George Seldes (the venerable anti-fascist writer whose work
has been accessed by Mr. Emory for decades, Seldes was an early and prolific
writer about the coup attempt); John L. Spivak (another early anti-fascist
writer who revealed that the report of the McCormack-Dickstein Committee
contained key omissions about the coup plot).
8.
Sadly, the mainstream media did not give effective
coverage to the coup attempt—in fact they helped to cover it up. Jules Archer
cites The New York Times and Time as two of the many publications
that exercised willful censorship of the coverage of the coup plot. It is also
worth noting that American academia has also remained largely oblivious to this
pivotal event.
9.
Two video productions are being generated by a couple of
documentary filmmakers. One is a DVD of a three-lecture series called “The
First Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Relationship Between Fascism and Religion.” To
learn more about this, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4YPCdFu7OE.
In addition, there will soon be a documentary about Mr. Emory, titled “The
Anti-Fascist.” For more about this project, visit: http://www.theantifascist.com/.