George W. Christians
George W. Christians photo (August 5, 1888 - June 1983)[1] was commander-in-chief of the Chattanooga based Crusader White Shirts. Originally from New York he was trained as an engineer at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.[2] Christians was the owner of American Asphalt Grouting Company. He was an inventor and held several patents.[3]
Christians lost his personal wealth in the stock market crash and the failure of his engineering business. He wrote a manuscript called The Depression which he believed contained solutions to the nation's economic problems. He had Congressman Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania to propose legislation based upon his economic ideas in the form of H.R. 4747 to the 72nd Congress.[4]
In December 1933 he sought and was granted an interview with President Roosevelt at his vacation retreat at Warm Springs, Georgia. The President listened to Christians' economic ideas and said he would give it his consideration. Roosevelt replied "Your plan is only one of many to restore the economics of this country. I intend to study them all."[5]
Early on Christians and his White Shirts tried to make alliance with the Jews but abandoned that prospect.[6] In 1936 and 1937 he worked with Lois de Lafayette Washburn--a noted Jew hater--in forming the Crusaders for Economic Liberty organization in Chicago.[7]
In March 1942 he was arrested in Chattanooga, Tennessee on sedition charges consisting of distributing propaganda and urging the insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty by members of the armed forces.[8] [9] He was given a five year sentence and a $5,000 fine.
Christians held both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic views. He circulated the Protocols and a political tract which read, “Kick the Roman Catholic Political Corruption out of Our Halls of Government.”[10] [11]
He published the National American Bulletin.
Contents
Works
- The Depression (unpublished manuscript)
See also
Notes
- ↑ Social Security Death Master File
- ↑ "This Fascist Racket" JTA July 9, 1934
- ↑ Google Search patents
- ↑ "This Fascist Racket" JTA July 10, 1934
- ↑ "This Fascist Racket" JTA July 9, 1934
- ↑ "This Fascist Racket" JTA July 12, 1934
- ↑ Women of the Far Right: the Mothers' Movement and World War II, by Glen Jeansonne, page 154
- ↑ JUSTICE: Milquetoast Gets Muscles, Time, April 13, 1942.
- ↑ "U. S. Charges Two Hurt Army Morale; Arrests Ordered", Boston Globe, Mar 28, 1942
- ↑ "This Fascist Racket" JTA July 18, 1934
- ↑ Under Cover, p. 150, by John Roy Carlson, (1943)
