Don Phillips, in Asheville, North Carolina, for violating terms of probation of a 1935 conviction for violating North Carolina security laws. On January 20, 1942, Pelley was sentenced to serve two to three years in prison by Superior Court Judge F. By around 1938, the Silver Legion's membership was down to about 5,000. Roosevelt handily won the reelection, and Pelley failed to figure among the top four.
However, the Democratic President Franklin D. He would be called "the Chief" just like other fascist world leaders who had similar titles such "Der Führer" for Adolf Hitler and "II Duce" for Benito Mussolini. Pelley hoped to seize power in a "silver revolution" and set himself as dictator of the United States. He claimed he would save America from Jewish communists just as "Mussolini and his Black Shirts saved Italy and as Hitler and his Brown Shirts saved Germany." Pelley ran for president of the United States in the 1936 election on a third-party ticket under the Christian Party banner. Legion leader Pelley called for a "Christian Commonwealth" in America that would combine the principles of racism, nationalism, and theocracy, while excluding Jews and non-whites. The organizational flag was a plain silver field with such a red L in the canton at the upper left.īy 1934, the Legion claimed to have about 15,000 members. The blocky slab serif L-emblem was in a typeface similar to the present-day Rockwell Extra Bold. The uniform shirts bore a scarlet letter L over the heart: an emblem meant to symbolize Loyalty to the United States, Liberation from materialism, and the Silver Legion itself. A nationalist, fascist group modeled after Benito Mussolini's blackshirts, the paramilitary Silver Legion wore a silver shirt with a blue tie, along with a campaign hat and blue corduroy trousers with leggings.
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