The Pittsburgh Press (August 28, 1944)
‘Friends of Democracy’ rap Gerald Smith
New York (UP) –
Friends of Democracy, in a pamphlet signed by president Rex Stout and national director L. M. Birkhead, yesterday attacked Gerald L. K. Smith, America First Party leader who, it said, has worked out a dangerous pattern for “revolution from the right.”
The pamphlet asserted:
Smith cannot be dismissed as a mere rabblerouser. He is becoming a real power, a real menace to our free institutions. For he does not speak only for the rabble and the crackpots. He is also financed and supported by misguided industrialists to whom he has sold the idea that Roosevelt is more dangerous than Hitler and that Willkie is indistinguishable from Stalin.