"RADIO PRIEST"
BROADCAST MISSED
SPECULATION AS TO CAUSE
(Received February 6, 10 a.m.)
DETROIT, February 5.
Father Coughlin, the "radio priest," did not make his customary Sunday nation-wide broadcast. All efforts to ascertain the cause were unavailing.
An announcer told listeners that "probably events transpiring this week will enlighten you."
Two weeks ago Father Coughlin defended the "Christian Front," declaring that his place was at the side of the accused. Last week he declared there was a definite need in the United States for "a Christian Front." The Chancellor of the Archdiocese, Dr Edward J- Hickey, unofficially suggested that Father Coughlin's failure to broadcast was the result of censorship by the church committee.
The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr. J. Edgar Hoover recently announced the arrest of 18 members of the "Christian Front" on charges of conspiracy to create a revolution, overthrow the Government, and establish a dictatorship.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1940, Page 8
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