BANNED FROM MAILS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 171, 16 April 1942, Page 5

BANNED FROM MAILS

Radio Priest’s Magazine (Received April 15, 10.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 11. The I’ost Office Department has revoked the mailing privileges of Father Coughlin’s “Social Justice” magazine, .banning it from the mails and also ordering the radio priest to appear in Washington on April 29, to show cause why the revocation should not be made permanent. The Attorney-General, .Mr. Biddle, sent a letter to the Bost Office Department, citing instances in which "Social Justice” violated the Espionage Act, 1917, under which Father Coughlin is liable to a line and imprisonment. Mr. Biddle stated that the magazine intfde a substantial contribution to the systematic and unscrupulous attack against the war effort of the United States, both civilian and military, since December. He added that the matter contained in the magazine since then showed a close relation to the 10 major themes which bad been broadcast by the Axis enemies. Mr. Biddle said there was striking similarity in the "Social Justice” issue of December, 1938, to a speech made by the German propaganda minister, Dr. Goebbels three years previously, lie alleged that whole portions of Goebbels’s speech had been published in "Social Justice" as an original article.