“Between the world wars, his Fellowship of Australian Writers released a document that advocated disconnection with the United States and stated, "US comics promoted
demonology, witchcraft and voodooism, with superman part of a raving mad view of the world." And of American musicals and minstrel shows, "the American negro, with his jungle is not welcome here."
He was a member of the
Australia First Movement whose magazine The Publicist he helped found in 1936 and edited from 1941–1942. He was noted for his
anti-semitic views in this period.
[1] At this time, Stephensen and his colleague J. B. Miles financed the first Aboriginal publication,
The Abo Call, which was written and edited by Aboriginal activist
Jack Patten.
Stephensen was a prolific author. He published over 30 books, as well as translations of works by
Vladimir Lenin and
Friedrich Nietzsche. He also produced nearly 70 books
ghostwritten for
Frank Clune.
He was interned without trial from 1942 to 1945 for pro-
Japanese and
Axis sympathies.”
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Sounds like a.....charming.....individual