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Allen Alderson Zoll (October 21, 1895 – August 30, 1969) was a far-right American political activist.[1]
In the 1930s, Zoll founded the American Patriots, Inc., a group listed as a fascist group on the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations during the Second World War.[2] The group had a publication, American Patriot, and hosted speakers such as Joe McWilliams, an American Nazi sympathiser, and Elizabeth Dilling, author of The Red Network.[2] The Military Intelligence Corps refused Zoll training at his Citizens' Military Training Camp during the war.[3] While he was working with American Patriots, Zoll was indicted for trying to extort money from Radio Station WMCA; he was not prosecuted following a not guilty plea.[4]
In 1939, Zoll lobbied against the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter since he was a foreign-born Jew.[5]
Zoll later founded the anti-communist National Council for American Education in 1949 and later founded the American Intelligence Agency, the Federation of Conservatives, the Committee on Pan-American Policy, and the Order of George Washington.[3] Research by Group Research, Inc., which analyzed records of right-wing organizations, said that 17 leaders in Zoll's organizations were also officers in or endorsers of the John Birch Society.[2] He also formed an alliance with Willis Carto and his Liberty Lobby.[6]
The Anti-Defamation League, who called Zoll a "notorious anti-Semite", said that in 1952 he was an adviser to Russell Maguire of The American Mercury and that he worked with Gerald L. K. Smith for a political committee, leading a group of 250 demonstrators at the 1952 Republican National Convention.[2] In the mid-1950s, Zoll claimed that the United Nations was "a device to permit the colored races to rule the white races [and that] UNESCO is an alien conspiracy to teach sex delinquency to American schoolchildren."[7]
He was on the staff of Billy James Hargis before becoming a worker in the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater, where he was kept in touch with Texas oil tycoon H. L. Hunt.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Howell, Thomas (July 2016). "Kansas City's Crusader: Leon Birkhead and the Fight against Fascism". Missouri Historical Review. 110 (4): 243 – via The State Historical Society of Missouri.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Dudman, Richard (24 November 1964). "Goldwater aid was founder of group on U.S. fascist list". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. pp. 1, 8.
- 1 2 "Group Accuses 76 Faculty Members Of Red Leanings". The Harvard Crimson. March 10, 1949.
- ↑ Sand, Robert Morrill (19 March 1953). "Sandscript". Ridgewood Herald-News. p. 18.
- ↑ "Senate Body Approves Frankfurter After Hearing His Testimony on Civil Liberties Union". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
- ↑ "Reveal VC (continued from page 1)". The Atchison Daily Globe. 8 December 1967. p. 8.
- ↑ "The Press: Facts-Forum Facts". Time. 1954-01-11. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2025-03-13.