Norman Vincent Peale

====Peale and rightist/anti-semitic claims====
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For a time,{{when|date = January 2022}} Peale was acting Chairman and Secretary of the [[National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government]] (NCUCG),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/rbml/lehman/pdfs/0719/ldpd_leh_0719_0027.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=July 19, 2020 |archive-date=December 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205170936/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/rbml/lehman/pdfs/0719/ldpd_leh_0719_0027.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{verification needed|date = January 2022}} a pressure group opposed to Franklin Roosevelt's policies.{{citation needed|date = January 2022}}<!--put "right-wing" back in when you can quote it from a source.--> In 1938, he was summoned by a Senate Committee Investigating Lobbying Activities, to answer questions concerning the NCUCG's activities.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Beito, D., & Witcher, M. | date = 2016 | title = "New Deal Witch Hunt": The Buchanan Committee Investigation of the Committee for Constitutional Government | journal = The Independent Review | volume = 21 | issue = 1 | pages = 47–71 | jstor = 43999676 | url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/43999676 | access-date = July 19, 2020}}</ref>{{verification needed|date = January 2022}}

Also. late in 1938, Peale appeared with [[Elizabeth Dilling]], the Reverend [[Edward Lodge Curran]], [[Francisco Franco]], and other <!--MORE "right wing"-using EDITORIALZING REMOVED-->figures at a "Mass Meeting and Pro-American Rally" (on October 30),<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/10/30/99568668.pdf|title=Events Today|work=The New York Times }}</ref> at the [[Grand Hyatt New York|Commodore Hotel]] in New York; this event was later described by [[Arthur Derounian]] (John Roy Carlson) in his 1943 book ''[[Arthur Derounian#"Under Cover"|Under Cover]]''.{{citation needed|date = January 2022}} Rev. Curran was a known supporter of Franco and other right-wing causes,<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Not stated--> | date = February 16, 1974 | title = Obituary: Edward Curran, Right-Wing Priest | work = The New York Times| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/16/archives/edward-curran-rightwing-priest-anticommunist-supporter-of-coughlin.html | access-date = January 26, 2022 }}</ref> as well as being "an anti‐communist and... an advocate of the, 'social justice' credo of [[Charles Coughlin|Father [Charles] Coughlin]], who was eventually ordered, off the air by his superiors" (and who Peale had earlier called out and harshly criticized for his "bizarre demogogy" in 1935).<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Not stated--> | date = May 13, 1935 | title = Dr. Peal Attacks Father Coughlin | work= The New York Times | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/05/13/94607620.html | access-date = January 26, 2022 }}</ref> Peale claimed to have been distressed by Derounian's book, that he had been badgered into giving the convocation (a pre-meeting prayer) by a parishioner, and that he had no idea of the nature of the rally.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} He further claimed to be particularly distressed at the association with Dilling.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} He considered but as was advised against filing a defamation case against the publisher, [[G P Putnam's Sons|Putnam's]], as it was not feasible given the fact that he had in fact delivered the convocation as described.<ref>{{cite book | author = George, Carol V. R. | year=1993 | title = God's Salesman: Norman Vincent Peale and the Power of Positive Thinking | pages = 170f | location = New York, New York | publisher = Oxford University Press | isbn = 9780195074635 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JobZAAAAMAAJ | access-date = January 26, 2022 | quote = }}</ref>{{verification needed|date = January 2022}}

In 1943, after the U.S. entry into [[World War II]], Peale preached a sermon denouncing antisemitism and demanding that the government and church take steps to "stamp it out."<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/11/08/85131928.pdf Peale Urges Action To End Anti-Semitism], New York Times November 8, 1943.</ref> As late as 1944, Peale was still described as the Chairman of the Committee for Constitutional Government, and had his signature appended to its publications.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}