Common Sense: The Nation's Anti-Communist Paper Issue No. 391 SEPT. 15, 1962 by McGinley, Conde - 1962

Union, N.J.: Christian Educational Association, 1972. A substantial, but far from complete, run of Common Sense, one of the most enduring and important far right newspapers of the 20th century. Founded in 1947 by Conde McGinley, the paper began a year earlier as Think (also The Think and Think Weekly), and described itself as "the nation's anti-Communist newspaper." However, early on the paper became shrill in its denunciation of Jews and Zionism and by 1954 McGinley and Common Sense came under the scrutiny of the Velde Committee, Committee on Un-American Activities, in their Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups, which determined that the paper's "patriotic claims provide poor disguise, however, for some of the most vitriolic hate propaganda ever to come to the attention of the committee" (p. 10). Many prominent anti-Semites contributed to the paper including Eustace Mullins, Fred Weiss, Elizabeth Dilling, Revilo P. Oliver, Eugene Sanctuary, Charles B. Hudson, Lyrl Clark van Hyning,… Read More