Common Sense, the anticommunist paper [78 different issues] "Communism is Treason! by McGinley, Conde, ed - 1955

Union, NJ: Common Sense, 1963. Newspaper. 4p., folded tabloid, paper browned with closed tears, else very good condition.

Union, NJ: Common Sense, 1962. Newspaper. 4p., folded tabloid newspaper, evenly browned, lightly edgeworn, faint dampstain on front wrap, else very good condition.

Union, NJ: Common Sense, 1962. Newspaper. 4p., folded tabloid newspaper, evenly browned, beginning to split at fold, pen notation on front wrap, else very good condition. The issue is almost entirely devoted to criticism of Cronin's pamphlet "Communism: Threat to Freedom" for being insufficiently anti-Semitic and focusing on external threats rather than the danger of Communist subversion from within. Cronin was assistant director of the Department of Social Action for the National Catholic Welfare Conference and an advisor on anti-Communism to Richard Nixon.

Union, NJ: Common Sense, 1963. Newspaper. 4p., folded tabloid, paper browned with closed tears, else very good condition. "With the coming of 'world war' to the modern age, the 'dedicated peace seekers' have redoubled their efforts to bring about...a world government which will ensure peace by establishing a centralized control of all 'offensive' weapons.

Union, NJ: Common Sense, 1962. Newspaper. 4p., folded tabloid newspaper, evenly browned, beginning to split at fold, pen notation on front wrap, else very good condition. The cover story is reprinted from the National Economic Council Letter No. 518. Also includes a few anti-UN articles and a negative and anti-Semitic review of "Judgment at Nuremberg.

Union, NJ: Common Sense, 1962. Newspaper. 4p., folded tabloid newspaper, evenly browned, beginning to split at fold, pen notation on front wrap, else very good condition. Claims that "on every hand we find Catholics and Protestants accepting vital directions from Christianity's age old enemy, the Jew.

Union, NJ: Common Sense, 1962. Newspaper. 4p., folded tabloid newspaper, evenly browned, lightly edgeworn, edgeworn and beginning to split along fold, else very good condition. "This article will correctly and carefully deal with the United Nation's leaders since it started. The illegitimate United Nations is the successor of the League of Nations, a Jewish creation.

Union, NJ: Common Sense, 1962. Newspaper. 4p., folded tabloid newspaper, evenly browned, 1 inch closed tear on bottom edge of front wrap, else very good condition. Cover story on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also includes an article on the upcoming UN invasion of Katanga.

Union, N.J.: Christian Educational Association, 1972. A substantial, but far from complete, run of Common Sense, one of the most enduring and important far right newspapers of the 20th century. Founded in 1947 by Conde McGinley, the paper began a year earlier as Think (also The Think and Think Weekly), and described itself as "the nation's anti-Communist newspaper." However, early on the paper became shrill in its denunciation of Jews and Zionism and by 1954 McGinley and Common Sense came under the scrutiny of the Velde Committee, Committee on Un-American Activities, in their Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups, which determined that the paper's "patriotic claims provide poor disguise, however, for some of the most vitriolic hate propaganda ever to come to the attention of the committee" (p. 10). Many prominent anti-Semites contributed to the paper including Eustace Mullins, Fred Weiss, Elizabeth Dilling, Revilo P. Oliver, Eugene Sanctuary, Charles B. Hudson, Lyrl Clark van Hyning,… Read More