Note 733 — Chapter VII · The Attack on History Textbooks Since 1917
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Ibid., p. 8. Objections were lodged against John P. O’Hara’s history although he is a Catholic. In The Fortnightly Review, April 15, 1924, Mr. O’Hara protests against the criticisms directed against him: “As long as the criticisms were confined to the Hearst press and similar secular mediums of publicity I was able to follow the discussion without being greatly disturbed; but when with the blessing of the K. of C. Historical Commission the Hearst ‘authority’ was allowed a page in Columbia, the official K. C. organ, on which to spread his charge that I, among others, was a Benedict Arnold who had sold his country for British gold, and when, in addition, his stuff was widely reprinted in the Catholic press, a different situation was created.... I received letters from various persons complaining ... that a man of my name should have fallen a victim to British agencies of corruption. One such letter put me in distinguished company in this fashion:
“‘Judas, 30 pieces of silver; Benedict Arnold, 10,000 pounds and a coronet: O’Hara???’”
The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXXI (April 15, 1924), pp. 156-157.