The Cross and The Flag
The Cross and The Flag was an eight-page monthly magazine founded in April 1942 and published until December 1977. Reverend Gerald L. K. Smith was editor and publisher. The publication was started to replace Father Coughlin’s Social Justice magazine which was banned in 1942 by the Justice Department from the mails.
At one time The Cross and The Flag had 25,000 subscribers.[1] Smith wrote the vast majority of the articles in the publication. In addition, he wrote over 300 pamphlets and small books.[2]
Smith started the publication because at the time his radio programs were being censored and the general media was hostile toward him.[3]
In the late 1940s Don Lohbeck was the editor who was replaced by Charles F. Robertson in 1953. Bernard A. Doman and John W. Hamilton were associate editors.
"The Cross and The Flag" was a common phrase and reference used by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and 1930s. General Douglas MacArthur use the phrase in a speech inwhich he said "The two greatest symbols in this civilization are the Cross and the Flag." This is said to have inspired Gerald L.K. Smith to adopt the name for his magazine.[4]
Ten High Principles
Each issue of the publication listed its Ten High Principles.[5]
- Preserve America as a Christian Nation, being conscious of the fact that there is a highly organized campaign to substitute Jewish tradition for Christian tradition.
- Expose, fight and outlaw Communism.
- Safeguard American liberty against the menace of bureaucratic Fascism.
- Maintain a government set up by the majority which abuses no minority and is abused by no minority. Fight mongrelization and all attempts being made to force the intermixture of the black and white races.
- Protect and earmark national resources for our citizenry first.
- Maintain the George Washington Foreign Policy of friendship with all nations, trade with all nations, entangling alliances with none.
- Oppose a world government and a super-state.
- Prove that the Worker, the Farmer, the Businessman, the Veteran, the Unemployed, the Aged, and the Infirm can enjoy more abundance under the true American system than any alien system now being proposed by foreign propagandists.
- Safeguard America's tradition in relationship to immigration.
- Enforce the Constitution as it pertains to our monetary system.
Contributors
Dr. Izzat Tannous, protestant Palestinian doctor
Notes
- ↑ Gerald L. K. Smith, Minister of Hate, By Glen Jeansonne, page 7
- ↑ The conservative press in twentieth-century America, by Ronald Lora, William Henry Longton, p. 395
- ↑ Gerald L. K. Smith, Minister of Hate, By Glen Jeansonne, page 138
- ↑ THIS IS CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM
- ↑ The Truth Never Changes
