Watchword - Trenton [handbill] - 1952

Dayton, OH: Peter Xavier, 1952. 8.5x14 inch mimeographed handbill, folded for mailing, "Native Fascist" penciled in corner. Signed in pen by Xavier at lower right. Xavier worked with various far-right groups including the National States Rights Party, gaining infamy for burning crosses and later being charged in the shooting of a Black man in a fight between NSRP members and Black protesters in Berea, Kentucky. Here he compares the contemporary political situation to the time when, "In the darkest hour of the Revolution, General Washington gathered his ragged, starving forces and struck at Trenton." Outlines a campaign to attack the UN and "the internationalist treason candidates: Stevenson and Eisenhower" through public demonstration, convoys dragging the UN flag on the ground through public squares, burning the presidential candidates in effigy, etc. "WARNING! WARNING! Another Pearl Harbor Is Planned. Exactly when it will come, no one seems to know. But in your heart, be prepared. Be forewarned. The original Pearl Harbor was a monstrously treasonable murder plot cooked up between Roosevelt and Churchill. In it American and British airmen were compelled to shoot down the innocent victims. Everything was cut and dried. America First folded up after Pearl Harbor. The present day groups of Patriots must not fold up, nor yield to war hysteria. Remember Pearl Harbor, the Global Plot of Infamy. Do not fall for another one.