A Final Editorial on 1st Amendment Freedoms

from Roll-Call, December 1941

Pelley’s last strictly political weekly was Roll-Call, which filled the vacancy left when Liberation was abandoned along with Asheville and the Silvershirt era.

As mentioned in a previous entry which reproduced an amusing critique of Samuel Dickstein, Roll-Call had a tendency toward America First and isolationism, though certainly not shying away from attacks on Roosevelt and repeated reference to the Jewish Question.

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Roll-Call carried a final dateline of Dec. 8, 1941 and had certainly gone to press before Pearl Harbor was bombed.

Here is the back page matter from that final issue and it gives one pause to think how Pelley’s rights as a writer/publisher would have held up had the peace continued. In hindsight, we know he never stood a chance in wartime.

Links to follow for anyone requiring a proper citation or further reading…

from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002796902w&seq=370

Further reading: Roll-Call vol. 2, 1941