Conversation

In early April 1944, New York Times asked FDR’s Vice President Henry Wallace to... “[W]rite a piece answering : What is a fascist? How many fascists have we? How dangerous are they?”

“The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.”