it might be interpreted that way. i find here on page 4 the following, i quote. the jews have the money but the again tiles have the numbers. no matter what measures toward repression may be taken, it will be a very fine thing in that hour not to be a jey. don t you think a fair interpretation by the average citizen reading that would be that there was a threat of force to be applied against the people of the jewish race in this country from some source. yes. you admit that that is a fair interpretation. yes. congressman, you are the acknowledged leader of the silver shirts? i am. and if the silver shirts had achieved their aim, would you have been the man in charge of the u.s. government? probably. and if you had become the leader of this country, would you have put into effect hitler s policies so far as they are referable to the anti-jewish policy? i probably would, sir. i probably would. that s congressional testimony from february 1940. the witn
dudley was like, okay, we ll be the silver shirts here in the united states and i ll be the american hitler. that s what you should think of me as. and he does look totally coo coo for cocoa puffs. see him in the middle there in their little uniform which he put his followers in? they look ridiculous. they look bizarre and also cartoonishly evil. but the bizarre nature of this unfortunately makes it possible to dismiss this as truly crazy and not going to amount to anything, that it was not actually that serious. between 1933, though, when he had history dig louse vision about him becoming hitler here, between 1933 and 1940 when he was giving that testimony to congress, william pelley