S. 990. In the Senate of the United States... A Bill to Protect the Integrity of the Democratic Process by Requiring Disclosure of Persons Writing, Publishing, and Circulating Scurrilous Literature in Connection with Political Campaigns... [caption title]

Washington DC, 1941. Very good plus.. 5,[1]pp. Original self wrappers. Soft horizontal crease. A slip-bill printing of the Gillette Propaganda Exposure Bill of 1941, proposed by Iowa Senator Guy Gillette. The bill sought "to protect the integrity of the democratic process by requiring disclosure of persons writing, publishing, and circulating scurrilous literature in connection with political campaigns; to deny the use of the mails to such literature and to prohibit its importation into the United States, in default of such disclosure; and for other purposes." The text of the bill opens by attempting to outlaw "all published matter" which causes "public hatred or contempt" for any American citizen "because of race, religion, descent, or nationality" during national elections and those in Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico. The bill also sought to establish an Office of Minority Relations to enforce the law, and provided penalties to anyone breaking the new law. The final line of the bill states that it should be referred to as the "Propaganda Exposure Act, 1941." Calling for honesty, fairness, and equal treatment in American political elections? It'll never pass, and it didn't.