Coughlin, Charles, 1891-1979

ports.

detailed dates of material: 1950, 1954-1956, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1972, 1979

Envelope 4/142 ; microfilm reel 056 ; Frames 1142 - 1163

15 newspaper clippings and 2 p. of biographical information

biographical information in digital form

Charles Coughlin was a controversial Roman Catholic priest in the USA, who was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience. He called for monetary reforms,for nationalization of major industries and railroads, and for protection of the rights of labor. He also issued antisemitic commentary, and supported some of the policies of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini -- (Wikipedia)

Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi was an Austrian politician, geopolitician, philosopher and count of Coudenhove-Kalergi. He is recognized as the founder , in 1922, of the first popular movement for a united Europe. He identified and collaborated with such politicians as Engelbert Dollfuss, Kurt Schuschnigg, Otto von Habsburg, Winston Churchill, and Charles de Gaulle. His ideal political constituent was a gentleman, a person adhering to honesty, fair play, courtesy, and rational discourse. He strove to replace the nationalist German ideal of racial community with the goal of an ethnically heterogeneous and inclusive European nation based on a communality of culture, a nation whose geniuses were the "great Europeans" such as abbé de Saint-Pierre, Kant, Napoleon, Giuseppe Mazzini, Victor Hugo, and Friedrich Nietzsche. In 1955 he proposed the Beethoven's Ode to Joy as the music for the European Anthem, a suggestion that the Council of Europe took up 16 years later. In his writings about Judaism he stressed the Jewish origins of Christian ethics and the moral and intelectual superiority of the Jewish people over the other European nations-- (Wikipedia)