THE NEW DEAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 89, 13 March 1935, Page 7

THE NEW DEAL.

REPLY TO GENERAL JOHNSON. DETROIT, March 11. To-night, Father Coughlin followed Senator Huey’ P. Long in publicly’ answering charges against him by General Hugh Johnson, former Administrator of the N.R.A., and for 45 minutes over a nation-wide radio network he divided his remarks between vigorously attacking the “AVa-11 Street Money Trust,” for which he claimed General Johnson was spokesman, and advocating .his own programme for “social justice and economic liberty,” the principal feature of which was the creation of a Governmenta.Uy-controlled central bank to supersede the nation’s private banking structure. Most of the address was in the form of direct queries and statements to General Johnson, as if lie was addressing him face to face. After defending the right of churchmen to discuss political questions, he unleashed a sarcastic flow of invective, against General Johnson, at various' times calling him a “chocolate soldier,” j a “prince of bombast,” and the “first casualty’ of the New Deal.” He added, however, that General Johnson was only speaking for his “masters,” often naming Mr Bernard Baruch, with whom General Johnson was associated for many years. In concluding, he reaffirmed his support of President Roosevelt, countercharging that it was General Johnson and Mr Baruch, and other “AVall Streeters,” w.ho were attempting to wreck the Administration, not him, although he retained the right Jo criticise some features of the New Deal and the N.R.A.