[3] When the movie star Edward G. Robinson called for a boycott of all German-made products in 1938, the National Gentile League launched a counter-boycott on Robinson and others who had the "same attitude against gentiles", claiming to represent "12 million True Blue Americans".
[4] Donald Shea, acting on behalf of the organization, attempted to defend George Van Horn Moseley in a 1939 House Un-American Activities Committee hearing, but Shea's statement was deleted from the public record as the committee found it so objectionable.
[5] Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes prohibited the group from using the National Sylvan Theater for a three-day rally that was planned to begin on June 6, 1939.
Ickes stated that the Sylvan Theater belonged to Americans of all races and not a group that fosters racial prejudice.
[6] During World War II, the US Army prevented Donald Shea's access to four coastal defence commands and ordered him to move to the Midwest in October 1943.