In the days before computers, there was a magazine for whites called the Mercury magazine. George L. Rockwell wrote about it in WHITE POWER, it sounds like it was real popular then. I'd like to read some of the articles, but I haven't been able to find anything. Does anyone know if their are any sites where the articles are archived or you can buy old copies?

I tried doing a search but didn't come up with anything. Anybody know who was the owner of this magazine? I gather that this was a better pro-white source than the John Birch society which was afraid to tackle the jewish problem.



" We could change everything tomorrow morning if all of the people who are afraid, would stop being afraid. That's how these these left-wing sneaks stay in power, because so many are afraid".
George L. Rockwell

It was a magazine called American Mercury. H.L. Mencken was one of its writers, so I am sure Alex Linder knows something about it.

Try googling "American Mercury". :) (First few hits will give you crap about an insurance company, but keep on digging.)

[QUOTE=999]It was a magazine called American Mercury. H.L. Mencken was one of its writers, so I am sure Alex Linder knows something about it.

Try googling "American Mercury". :) (First few hits will give you crap about an insurance company, but keep on digging.)[/QUOTE]

Yeah, that's about it. American Mercury was real popular long ago, when Mencken was running it. The only thing I ever saw about it was that it was turned over to someone else, I forget who, and became an anti-semitic rag. Of course, that's the conventional conservative way of putting it. I've never seen a copy of the magazine in its later years, if I had, I would certainly be posting it online as we have with Instaurations, of which I do have a good number of copies. Good luck with your search, Chrissy, and if you come across some, let me know. The articles from it should be archived online.

[QUOTE=Alex Linder]Yeah, that's about it. American Mercury was real popular long ago, when Mencken was running it. The only thing I ever saw about it was that it was turned over to someone else, I forget who, and became an anti-semitic rag. Of course, that's the conventional conservative way of putting it. I've never seen a copy of the magazine in its later years, if I had, I would certainly be posting it online as we have with Instaurations, of which I do have a good number of copies. Good luck with your search, Chrissy, and if you come across some, let me know. The articles from it should be archived online.[/QUOTE]
I read quite a few old American Mercury magazines in a state university library. It was founded in the 20s I believe by H.L. Mencken as a kind of freethinking magazine. Somebody else took over as editor in the 40s and 50s, and finally in the 60s it was purchased by Willis Carto, and in his custody the magazine was published less often, relied more and more on reprints of old articles, and finally died in the late 70s.

The intellectual tone and level of American Mercury was similar to that of Reader's Digest except that the material was all original and leaned toward controversy. It was never really a magazine that deserved a bad reputation. I don't think I ever saw any article in the magazine that was directly anti-Jew: organized Jewry tends to see this everywhere that their particular version of events isn't slavishly repeated.

One thing that I noticed about American Mercury is that the magazine published quite a lot of articles in the late thrities opposing U.S. involvement in another European war, and debunking the anti-German presentation of events at that time. The names that I recall especially are Lawrence Dennis and Erich Posselt. All expressions of this skeptical viewpoint disappeared from the magazine in 1941, and the magazine started printing war propaganda by authors who had not been published in the magazine before. After the war however things went back to normal at American Mercury.

In the 50s the magazine strongly supported Senator McCarthy, and George Lincoln Rockwell wrote two articles for the magazine in the late 50s before he proclaimed himself a "Nazi," one about Paris Island. American Mercury was also one of the first, maybe the first U.S. publication to publish essays expressing skepticism about the Holocaust and the Ann Frank Diary.

I've some mid to late '60s copies around here somewhere.

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Very much an intellectual reflection of the Jazz age, the Mercury declined rapidly with the Depression. When Mencken resigned in 1933, he was succeeded by Charles Angoff and Paul Palmer. Lawrence Spivak took over the editorship and the publishing of the magazine in 1936. The Spivak Mercury actually produced several collectible issues, having preserved a good deal of the Mencken/Nathan writing stable. Readership, however, continued to decline through World War II and the magazine went through two changes of ownership between 1950 and 1952. Clendenin J. Ryan published three issues under the title the New American Mercury and sold the magazine to William Bradford Huie in February 1951. In the issue of October 1951, Huie placed the legend ''Founded by Henry L. Mencken'' beneath the table of contents. The magazine reprinted several of Mencken's articles and ran a story by Herbert Asbury about the Hatrack affair. In August 1952, Huie sold the Mercury to J. Russell Maguire.

The Maguire Mercury became a standard bearer of what is now called the "religious right." J. Edgar Hoover wrote for the magazine, as did Billy Graham, whose portrait on the cover of the January 1957 issue has become collectible. The Maguire Mercury defended Senator Joseph McCarthy along with states' rights and attacked such things as the graduated income tax, the NAACP, the United Nations, NATO, the ACLU, and Zionism. It was sold to Defenders of the Christian Faith, Inc. in 1962 and the Legion for the Survival of Freedom, Inc. the next year. Increasingly marginalized, the magazine struggled through several owners to publish it's final issue, as a quarterly, in Winter 1980.

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From 1914 to 1923 H.L.Mencken and George Jean Nathan edited the Smart Set, then the magazine most influential in the growth of American literature. In 1924 the two founded the American Mercury, and Mencken edited it until 1933.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
THE AMERICAN MERCURY
During 1923, while he and the noted drama critic George Jean
Nathan were still editing the Smart Set, Henry Louis Mencken gleefully
anticipated the new monthly to be published the following January by
Alfred A. Knopf. Mencken planned "a serious review the gaudiest and
damndest ever seen in the Republic."' Theodore Dreiser suggested several
flashy titles. ''What we need," Mencken explained to his old friend, "is
something that looks highly respectable outwardly. The American Mercury is almost perfect for that purpose. What will go on inside the tent is another story. You will recall that the late P. T. Barnum got away with burlesque shows by calling them moral lectures.'' During the next decade, Mencken would thrust his arms wide, gather in as much of America as possible, and make it all part of the show. Under his forceful hand, the American Mercury would provide rollicking, highly irreverent commentary upon the American scene. From 1924 to 1933, ''Mencken'' and the ''Mercury" would become synonymous. This coupling would prove to be one of the
magazine's greatest strengths as well as a salient factor in its decline.
When the American Mercury was established, Mencken and Nathan were each given twenty-five shares of stock, the remaining one hundred were divided among Knopf, his wife, and his father as well as full editorial control. The magazine was intended for the intelligent, solvent, urbane American who was skeptical about brummagem utopias and the yearning to save humanity. ''The American Mercury will never have a million
circulation,'' Mencken explained. "It is not headed in that direction. Its
function is to depict America for the more enlightened sort of
Americansrealistically, with good humor and wholly without cant. It is
read wherever a civilized minority survives the assaults of the general herd
of yawpers and come-ons. Its aim is to entertain that minority and give it
consolation.'' The American Mercury was called many things, a number of them vicious, but few called it dull.
Even fewer called it unattractive. As Mencken wished, the
magazine's rambunctious content was sedately clothed by its respectable
title and the distinctive Paris-green cover. The paper was expensive Scotch
featherweight, and the Garamond type was set in double columns. There
were no illustrations in each issue of 128 pages.5 Mencken had chafed under
what he considered the ostentation of the Smart Set's cover and the poor
quality of its paper. With the Mercury, he had a magazine whose
understated elegance set it apart from many of its competitors.
As he had done when he and Nathan were editing the Smart Set,
Mencken continued to live in Baltimore and make periodic trips to New
York City. Highly efficient, Mencken and Nathan decided to handle
submissions as they had done earlier. If the first reader liked the
manuscript, then he forwarded it to his colleague, whose approval was also
necessary for a piece to be accepted. Disagreements were rare, and authors received a quick response to their material. Encouragement and incisive
criticism accompanied many letters of rejection. This editorial courtesy,
the prompt response and payment, and the prestige of appearing in the
Mercury helped to atone for the magazine's low rate of pay: two cents per
word for prose, and fifty cents per line for poetry.
During Mencken's editorship, the Mercury published William
Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson,
Sinclair Lewis, and Edgar Lee Masters. But the magazine was also
enlivened by a number of writers not actively courted by other magazines.
Convicts and hoboes and dishwashers wrote for Mencken, as did taxi
drivers and businessmen, physicians and clergymen, lawyers and diplomats
and outdoorsmen. The Mercury remained open to newspapermen as well as
academic critics, and the eclectic nature of its contributors benefited the
magazine.
The Smart Set had been primarily a magazine of fiction. But
during his decade with the Mercury, Mencken's interest in fiction declined; he published less of it and reviewed it infrequently. The Mercury's
nonfiction, as well as some of its more celebrated features, tended to be
satirical. In fact, more than one-third of the essays published between 1924
and 1929 lampooned some aspect of the American scene. Some of the
more vulnerable targets were assaulted repeatedly: pedagogy, chiropractic,
Christian Science, Prohibition, puritanism, the sad credulity of rural
America.s In "Americana," a feature continued from the Smart Set, the
editors offered items gleaned from a variety of newspapers and magazines.
Determined to prove the imbecility of the American mind, Mencken and
Nathan did not lack material. For example, the Mercury recounted the
story of the young man in Oregon who, believing that fasting would
improve his health, died of starvation. And there was the sad tale of the
wife who divorced her husband because, at the breakfast table, he took the
milk for his coffee directly from a goat's udder.
The initial printing for the Mercury's first issue was five thousand; a
second printing was necessary, then a third. The January 1924 Mercury sold
more than fifteen thousand copies, far surpassing the most optimistic
expectations.'! By the end of the year, circulation had climbed past forty-
two thousand." Nathan's resignation as coeditor in 1925 had no noticeable
impact. (The men were heading in opposite directions: Nathan's interest
remained literature, particularly drama, but Mencken was concerned with
the American scene.)' By the end of June 1925, circulation had surpassed
forty-six thousand.'

continued ...
April 1926 was marked by the uproar over "Hatrack,'' a chapter
from Herbert Asbury's forthcoming book Up from Methodism. This
episode brought the magazine and its editor even greater notoriety and
placed both in the forefront of the battle against censorship. "Hatrack''the
title is taken from an angular prostitute of that nameridicules
evangelicalism, hypocritical religion, and the prurience of small-town life.
The Reverend J. Frank Chase, secretary of the powerful Watch and Ward
Society in Boston, found ''Hatrack" immoral, and a magazine peddler on
Harvard Square was arrested for selling the issue in question. Mencken went
to Boston to challenge the ruling, sold Chase a copy of the magazine, and
was promptly arrested. Mencken was tried the next day and acquitted the
following one. The victory cost over twenty thousand dollars in lost
revenues and legal fees and a substantial loss of advertising, but the Mercury
had taken a stand for freedom of speech, a cause that Mencken championed
above all others. 14 At the end of 1926, Walter Lippmann called Mencken
"the most powerful influence on this whole generation of educated
people.'"5
Circulation approached eighty thousand in 1927 and peaked at
eighty-four thousand in early 1928.'6 It has been argued repeatedly that the
stock-market crash and the resulting depression began the Mercury's decline.
Certainly, they proved to be major factors. Mencken's decision not to take
the depression seriously hurt the magazine's credibility. Moreover, his
iconoclasm proved less agreeable to the empty stomachs of the depression
years. But circulation figures show that the magazine's popularity had begun
to ebb prior to the crash in October 1929.l7 Mencken's satire, it appears,
had run its course. It had been soinsistent, and in the end so successful, that
there was less real need for it. Circulation continued to decline during the
early years of the depression. A Jeffersonian liberal, Mencken defended
laissez-faire capitalism and attacked proletarian literature. He was bitterly
derided by the Left. In 1932, some of Mencken's old friends turned on him.
May of that year saw the publication of the first issue of the American
Spectator, edited by Nathan, Dreiser, Ernest Boyd (an Irish critic who had
written a book about Mencken in 1925), James Branch Cabell, and Eugene
O'Neill. Some of the American Spectator's features were outright
imitations of those in the Mercury. 18
Mencken resigned as editor of the Mercury in December 1933, and
his departure precipitated what Marvin Singleton has called ''the erratic
downward course of the monthly.''l9 Henry Hazlitt, formerly of the
Nation, edited four issues. When he was replaced by Charles Angoff,
previously Mencken's assistant, the magazine moved to the Left. Knopf sold
the magazine in December 1934 for only twenty-five thousand dollarsto
Paul Palmer, formerly of the Baltimore Sunpapers.20 Never again would
the Mercury evidence the quality or stability that it had shown under Knopf.
In October 1936, the magazine was reduced to digest size, and the
price was cut from fifty to thirty-five cents. Three years later, Palmer sold
the magazine to Lawrence E. Spivak, a Harvard graduate who had become
the magazine's business manager in 1933. Some old faces reappeared. In
1940, Nathan returned to his column on the theater. Angoff contributed to
''The Library" and served as both literary editor and managing editor, and
Mencken wrote three pieces during 1939 and 1941.2' Under Spivak, the
Mercury lacked the vitality that it had shown under Mencken. In 1946, the
magazine merged with Common Sense. By December 1950, Spivak was
reportedly losing forty thousand dollars an issue, and he sold the Mercury
to Clendenin J. Ryan, the wealthy son of Thomas Fortune Ryan.22 Ryan
published three issues under the title the New American Mercury and sold
the magazine to William Bradford Huie in February 1951. In the issue of
October 1951, Huie placed the legend ''Founded by Henry L. Mencken''
beneath the table of contents.23 The magazine reprinted several of
Mencken's articles and ran a story by Herben Asbury about the Hatrack
affair. In August 1952, Huie sold the Mercury to J. Russell Maguire, a
wealthy oilman and munitions manufacturer.
During Maguire's eight years, the Mercury ran more articles (much
shorter ones) per issue and took a pronounced step to the Right. J. Edgar
Hoover wrote for the magazine, as did Billy Graham, whose portrait
graced the cover in January 1957. The Mercury defended Senator Joseph
McCarthy and the doctrine of states' rights and attacked, among other
things, the graduated income tax, the NAACP, the United Nations,
NATO, the ACLU, and Zionism. In fact, for the remainder of its days the
Mercury was engaged in a bitter battle with the Anti-Defamation League
over charges of anti-Semitism.
In January 1961, Maguire sold the Mercury to the Defenders of the
Christian Faith, Inc., and the editorial offices were moved to Oklahoma
City. Whereas earlier the magazine had been shaped by Mencken's skepticism, now it printed moral lectures and ran a number of reprints from fundamentalist periodicals. There was even an advertisement for recordings of Billy Sunday's sermons. Issues were missed now, and the magazine contained only sixty-four pages. In 1963, the Legion for the Survival of Freedom, Inc., bought the magazine and moved its offices to Texas. A religious editor was added to the staff. The magazine, which sometimes appeared late, attacked John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. In April 1963, the Mercury became a quarterly. In June 1966, the magazine announced an agreement with the Washington Observor, a four-page, semimonthly publication: the periodicals had to be subscribed to concurrently.24 At the same time, the Mercury announced a merger with Western Destiny, a monthly. The Mercury also inherited Northern World, Folk, and Right, publications that Western Destiny had succeeded.
Beginning with the winter 1966 issue, editorial offices were moved
to Torrance, California. A year later, the Mercury's circulation was under
seven thousand.25 The magazine lambasted the Jews and carried articles on
eugenics.26 Under Mencken, the Mercury had discussed many aspects of
black culture and had published the writing of George Schuyler, James
Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter White, and
Countee Cullen.27 In 1967, the Mercury denounced racial integration and
went so far as to state: "Negroes have never, at any time or place in the
entire history of the world, created or maintained a culture above that of the
stone age" (103:3-5).
With the spring 1974 issue, the Mercury celebrated its fiftieth
anniversary. The magazine drew upon its illustrious past in an effort to
enhance its popularity. The lead editorial, ''If Mencken Would Return. . . ,''
announced righteously, and wrongly, that Mencken ''would clearly approve
of the lonely course [the] Mercury has taken since his departure.'' The
editorial spoke confidently of the magazine moving "into its second half-
century" and continuing "in [Mencken's] footsteps' ' (110:3-4) . It was a very
short half-century, and the magazine ' s course was not one that Mencken had
plotted. In 1976, the Mercury published Austin J. App's "H. L. Mencken,
Most Influential German-American Author." Marred by several factual
errors, the piece lamented that Mencken's insistence upon freedom of speech
had unintentionally "furnished ammunition to the proponents of
pornography."28 The Mercury ran anicles attacking black studies, the
supposedly pernicious influence of modern art in general and Picasso's
paintings in particular, and attempts by homosexuals to gain equality under
the law. One editorial questioned the existence of the Holocaust and
declared that ''Adolph Hitler had embarked upon the greatest task of any
man in history . . . the creation of a new culture on the ruins of the old''
(114:3-4).
In the fall 1979 issue, the editor announced a change in ownership
and bravely spoke of returning to monthly publication with a magazine
twice as long as the present one.29 With the winter issue, editorial offices
were moved to Houston. The next year, 1980, marked the centennial of
Mencken's birth, and the spring issue was dedicated to his memory.
Besides reprinting one of Mencken's articles and carrying a centennial
graphic, the Mercury ran a lead editorial about Mencken that elegized an
earlier, simpler time when "the virus of social, racial and sexual equality
did not find fertile soil in the minds of most Amencans" (116:3-4). This
issue ended with a special supplement soliciting contnbutions so that
computers could index biographical information about Amenca's fifteen
thousand most dangerous political activists. This plea marked the
magazine's lugubnous end. With no notice of cessation, the Mercury shut
down after publishing one issue in its fifty-seventh year.30
Few Amencan periodicals have changed as drastically as theMercury did. At its best, dunng the early years under Mencken, the magazine stood at the forefront of Amencan culture by examining this country with an enlightened skepticism. At its worst, the magazine drifted into the foul backwaters of fear and intolerance. But the Mercury's demise should not detract from its achievements. Because of its uncompromising stand against censorship, its positive influence upon other Amencan magazines, the cogency of its satire, and the opportunities that it offered to a variety of writers, the Mercury succeeded, at least for a while, in fulfilling the high expectations that Mencken held for it in 1923.

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Interesting background on the magazine. How odd that they changed their stance on WW2 in 1941, wonder what was behind that , probably some nasty pressures applied. I'm glad they supported Senator Joe McCarthy though.

It seems strange to me that the WN's then were so frightened of the Russians, surrounded by millions of hateful blacks and their allies. But I guess no more strange then the whites of the fourties being afraid of the Germans, also living with the minorites.






" In reviewing my career in world war two I came to the conclusion that I am a soviet war veteran, I helped turn over a majority of the earth's surface to the Soviet Union." George L. Rockwell

I have copies of the three Rockwell articles packed up somewhere...

Just go in your local public library, find a white reference librarian and ask that they look up the articles by George Lincoln Rockwell in the Reader's Guide to Periodic Literature for the years 1955-1960. They were sometime along then.

Titles:

Who Wants Panty-waist Marines?

Miracle at Paris Island

No Wonder Iceland Hates Us

They should even offer to order copies for you, though the magazine is on the shelves in a lot of large libraries.

Thanks for the info, I hadn't thought about the library, probably has a good number of articles stored. If you come across those articles that Mr Rockwell wrote sometime, maybe you could post them for the VNN readers.








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Somewhat related. was anyone else a fan of the Cholly Bilderberger columns that appeared in Instauration up until about 1990? Unfortunately I lost all my old copies during the course of a move.

I have on my computer "The Jewish Problem" by Albert J. Nock (author of Our Enemy the State and The Superfluous Man --and also, I think, a Mencken correspondent), which appeared in the Mercury in the late 30's. The Nock article was Xeroxed by and obtained from a family friend who also supplied numerous other, and better, "anti-semitic" (ie, very elucidating) books and pamphlets (from Dilling, W.G. Simpson, Arnold Leese, Fahey, G. Armstrong, etc, etc.) Most such staples have remained available, or become even moreso, thanks to the 'net and the efforts of a few men--and, thanks to the jews' chutzpah, we never lack for new material, either.

Here you can see, on today's (Feb 9) page, about 2/3rds of the way down, a tattered cover of The Smart Set: http://orlingrabbe.com/homepage.html

Evidently, even the once-upon-a-time, relatively mainstream availability of publications actually worth reading, such as these, could not counteract the anti-white, stupifying, crushing force of radio and bigger and better media--the almighty TV, under the control of our enemies.

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It seems strange to me that the WN's then were so frightened of the Russians, surrounded by millions of hateful blacks and their allies.[/QUOTE]
It seems to mee that the Cold War was actually used as a way to force people to accept impositions that they otherwise would not have accepted. Everybody felt the need to support the government, even when it did terrible things to them, because of the Soviet threat.

Originally posted by Ossian
I have on my computer "The Jewish Problem" by Albert J. Nock (author of Our Enemy the State and The Superfluous Man --and also, I think, a Mencken correspondent), which appeared in the Mercury in the late 30's. The Nock article was Xeroxed...

I collect Nock's works, and have heard of, as well as seen snippets of the original text, the the above article previously. I've never read it in its entirety, though. Could you please post it or PM it to me?

[QUOTE=Glowbox Opus]I have copies of the three Rockwell articles packed up somewhere...

Just go in your local public library, find a white reference librarian and ask that they look up the articles by George Lincoln Rockwell in the Reader's Guide to Periodic Literature for the years 1955-1960. They were sometime along then.

Titles:

Who Wants Panty-waist Marines?

Miracle at Paris Island

No Wonder Iceland Hates Us

They should even offer to order copies for you, though the magazine is on the shelves in a lot of large libraries.[/QUOTE]
The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature is not hard to use. Each green volume indexes a separate year. Do the adult White male thing. Find the Reader's Guide in the library and look up Rockwell yourself in the late 50s volumes. You will probably have to go to a university library to find the magazine, but a public library that doesn't have the magazine can still get photocopies of specific pages for you on request.

If there is a major library near you that has the magazine however it is worthwhile to go there. The magazine had lots of interesting articles (more interesting than what Rockwell was writing at that time, since the article of his that I read, about how Paris Island molds character, wasn't especially earthshaking), especially in the 30s and in the late 40s and 50s, and you will enjoy browsing through the issues.