Readers of Johnson’s reports in Social Justice were told that Hitler’s seizure of Poland (or at least the part of Poland that he hadn’t gifted to his new friends in Moscow) was met with flowers and felicitations by the Poles, and there was certainly no reason for Americans to get their knickers in a twist about it. That confusing nonaggression pact with the Russians notwithstanding, Social Justice readers were assured by their man in the field that Adolf Hitler looked like he would make a damn fine ally in Father Coughlin’s existential fight between the Christians and the communists.
