https://sethcotlar.substack.com/p/walter-huss-knew-that-if-fascism

future Republican Secretary of State and Governor Tom McCall dug into Huss’s background and wrote a memo describing Huss as “a fascist.” At least two Portland residents who testified at the televised hearing, a Finnish trade unionist and an African-American minister, explicitly compared Huss’s organization to that of the Nazis. Considering that as a young man in the 1930s Huss had likely been involved with a pro-Hitler group called “the Silver Shirts,” what may have sounded like hyperbole to some viewers in 1961 was more on the mark than anyone at the time (other than Huss and his friends who shared his Silver Shirt ties) could have known.

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