Elizabeth Dilling

Writer, Author

1894 – 1966

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Who was Elizabeth Dilling?

Elizabeth Dilling Stokes was an American anti-communist and later antisemitic social activist, as well as an anti-war campaigner and writer in the 1930s and 1940s. She stood trial for sedition in Washington in 1944.

The author of four political books, Dilling claimed that Marxism and "Jewry" were synonymous. She believed that Francisco Franco was a brave Christian. She claimed many prominent figures were Communist sympathizers, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, Franz Boas and Sigmund Freud.

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Born
Apr 19, 1894
Chicago
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of Chicago
Died
May 26, 1966

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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