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Common Sense, was a semi-monthly newspaper published by American antisemite activist Conde McGinley. At its peak, the newspaper claimed a paid circulation of 91,000.

The House UnAmerican Activities Committee called the newspaper "a clearing house for hate propaganda."

History

ommon Sense, the first issue of which appeared in June 1947, is the successor of other McGinley publications variously entitled Think, The Think, and Think Weekly. Its anti-Semitic line became virulent in 1948, when it defended Robert H. Best, the American newsman who was convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment for his wartime service to the Nazis as a radio propagandist. McGinley defines Communism as “a false face for Judaism.” Typical headlines appearing in the magazines are: “Jewish Leaders Are Crazy for Power”; “Zionists Threaten Russia with War”; “Brotherhood—Jew Trap for Christianity”; “Invisible Government Rules Both Parties—Adlai and Ike Marxist Stooges.”

McGinley’s semi-monthly magazine Common Sense, which he edits and publishes from his print shop in Unionville, New York, is probably the most successful anti-Semitic racket now operating in this country. In addition to the magazine, which sometimes has a print order of over 100,000 and averages around 50,000, He and his son have published “Common Sense,” a semi-monthly which claimed a paid circulation of 91,000 in 1963.

Contributors

Among the contributors to Common Sense have been Eustace Mullins, W. Henry MacFarland, Jr., Frederick Charles F. Weiss, and Kurt Mertig, all of whom have associated themselves with the National Renaissance party; also Robert W. Williams, of Santa Ana, California, Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling, Mrs. Lyrl Clark Van Hyning, Colonel Eugene Sanctuary, and General George Van Horn Mosely, retd., who in 1940 was proposed as national leader of an abortive attempt to form a coalition of American fascist and hate groups that was exposed by the Un-American Activities Committee.

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Financial support

Benjamin Freedman, who told the Armed Services Committee on December 12, 1950 that he had given $15,000 to Common Sense.

Reception

The House UnAmerican Activities Committee called the newspaper "a clearing house for hate propaganda."