PEACE PICKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 81, 5 April 1941, Page 7

PEACE PICKETS.

■ i ATTEMPT AT TIE-UP. DOROTHY THOMPSON TALK. LOS AXGELES, March 2.">. Apparently attempting to carry out anonymous threats to picket the Shrine Auditorium during the talk of Dorothy Thompson, Rooscveltian columnist, several hundred "peace group" , represen-l tatives last night complicated traffic ! before the auditorium and. provoked minor disturbances. Although none of the persons loitering about the entrance carried banners, j several distributed literature of Father

loughlin's "'Social Justice" newspaper, the hammer and sickle emblazoned on I banners pictured on back. I Other* sold copie.- of "The Call," (announcing "Xorman Thomas on War Force* in America." Disputes centred about thc seller* of this literature, with two-score plainclothes and uniformed police breaking them up before violence stinted. Nearly (iOOO persons pressed their way through the crowds jamming the entrance to hear Mies Thompson, wife of Author Sinclair Lewi.-, ae she offered her support of Roosevelt policies. "The mob is that faceless thing . . . that pickets,"' the columnist commented, drawing a laugh from tho audience. "The j people are those 'My Friends' to whom J Roosevelt speaks in hi* fireside chate. Now you know tho difference between the mob and the ]>eople." Comparing the new war to thc American Civil War, in that it is a war against slavery. Miss Thompson frequently referred to fifth columnists and Nazis working in the United States. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■ aaaaaBBBHaHBIIB