JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
- We Planned It So. Published by the Loyal American Group, Norfolk, Va., 1940. 42pp, 11.5 x 8.5". Original printed wrappers. A fair copy, as the pages were printed on cheap paper that has become brittle. Intact, but guardedly so--it could easily be ripped in half with just a faint notion. That said, it exists, and other copies are very scarce. This pamphlet was not printed to weather the ages, and was ephemeral, even when it was "topical". $125
This 42-page oversized pamphlet renders its vicious criticism mostly by cartoon, a cartoon on every page, and mostly a lie (or a group of them) to go along with it. The work is ostensibly that of a republican (the pamphlet "priced low enough to enable every Republican to buy a copy for his Democratic friends" but it is really far beyond that. It is tremendously anti-Communist, and anti-Socialist, and so much so that it swings far to the right of right-winger Conservatives who are beyond the reach of right-wing Republicans, all the way over to fascism.
The work was publish by the Loyal American group, an organization under the direction of W.Henry MacFarland jr, whose organization "promptly identified as a fascist organization by the U.S. Attorney General", and hung around long enough to be added to a list of fascist/hate groups in the Preliminary Report on Neo-fascist and Hate Groups by the Committee on Un-American Activities (December 17, 1954). I'd reproduce more of the artwork, but the pamphlet is brittle and won't go onto the scanner without breaking. The remarkable front and back pages should serve the purpose of the publication....
(Curiously, on the copyright page the printer notes that teh book has been assembled "by organized labor in the U.S.A.")
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