OPINION: Fearless Americans

Gerald L. K. Smith, the rabble-rousing, anti-Administration, anti-British (but not notably anti-Nazi) preacher of isolationism, last week nominated his own Hall of Fame—”a partial list of fearless Ameri-cans”: 1) Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. 2) Father Charles E. Coughlin, of Royal Oak, Mich. 3) Gerald B. Winrod, anti-Semite, anti-Catholic editor of The Defender, Wichita, Kans. 4) Eleanor Patterson, publisher, Washington Times-Herald. 5) Elizabeth Billing, Chicago Red-baiter. 6) Joseph M. Patterson, publisher, the New York Daily News. 7) Congressman Martin Dies of Texas. 8) William Randolph Hearst. 9) The editors of the Brooklyn Tablet, Coughlin-supporting weekly. 10) Father Edward Lodge Curran, of Brooklyn, also a Coughlin supporter. 11) Senator Robert R. Reynolds. 12) Charles A. Lindbergh.