ONe wonders why a group of right wingers, admiring Hitler and Mussolini, planned a Coup to overthrow FDR in 1934. The plot was stopped by Smedley Butler.
Smedley Butler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In early 1934, Butler alleged the existence of a political conspiracy of Wall Street interests to overthrow President Roosevelt, a series of allegations that came to be known in the media as the Business Plot.[51] In March 1934, the House of Representatives authorized investigations into his allegations by a special committee headed by John W. McCormack of Massachusetts and Samuel Dickstein of New York. The McCormack-Dickstein committee was a precursor to the House Committee on Un-American Activities.[52]
In November 1934, Butler told the committee that a group of businessmen, claiming to be backed by a private army of 500,000 ex-soldiers and others, intended to establish a fascist dictatorship. Butler had been asked to lead it, he said, by Gerald P. MacGuire, a bond salesman with Grayson M–P Murphy & Co. The New York Times reported that Butler had told friends that General Hugh S. Johnson, a former official with the National Recovery Administration, was to be installed as dictator. Butler said MacGuire had told him the attempted coup was backed by three million dollars, and that the 500,000 men were probably to be assembled in Washington, D.C. the following year. All the parties alleged to be involved, including Johnson, said there was no truth in the story, calling it a joke and a fantasy.[52]
When the committee's final report was released,
the Times said the committee "purported to report that a two-month investigation had convinced it that General Butler's story of a Fascist march on Washington was alarmingly true" and "... also alleged that definite proof had been found that the much publicized Fascist march on Washington, which was to have been led by Major. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired, according to testimony at a hearing, was actually contemplated".[59]
The McCormack-Dickstein Committee, which was a precursor to the House Un-American Activities Committee, confirmed some of Butler's accusations in its final report.
"In the last few weeks of the committee's official life it received evidence showing that certain persons had made an attempt to establish a fascist organization in this country...There is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient."[60] [n 1][n
Doesn't disprove a damn thing. This coup attempt was being planned by fascists who have always warred against communists then went out and did the same things, except with the trappings of private enterprise. But as Mussolini explains about Corporatism, which he believed the true name for fascism, was about co-opting the corporations and bringing them into the state fold for control.
A distinction without a meaning for the results were always the same, regardless of how they were applied.
A group of right wingers plotted against Roosevelt. You say that fascists are on the left. Why would the left plot against the left?
In 1934 a group of right wing business men plotted to overthrow FDR, in support of the right wing fascist dicatators, Mussolini and Hitler, who despised the Liberals and Socialists.
i thought antagon thanked HUGGY for that 'helpful post'
