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===Alliance between Coughlin and Long===
===Alliance between Coughlin and Long===
Alongside Coughlin, as a nationwide leader of economic populist revolts against the Roosevelt Administration from the ''left'', was [[Huey Long]], who similarly began as a Roosevelt supporter who became disenchanted with the perceived moderate approach. An issue that proved effective concerned FDR's internationalist approach to foreign policy when requesting Senate approval of United States entry into the [[World Court]]; Coughlin, an isolationist, denounced the proposal as sacrificing American sovereignty to the [[League of Nations]].<ref>''Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Formation of the Union Party 1936'', pp. 30–32.</ref> Long subsequently led the opposition on the Senate floor, and Roosevelt's proposal was defeated by a vote of 52–36.
Alongside Coughlin, as a nationwide leader of economic populist revolts against the Roosevelt Administration from the ''left'', was [[Huey Long]], who similarly began as a Roosevelt supporter who became disenchanted with the perceived moderate approach. An issue that proved effective concerned FDR's internationalist approach to foreign policy when requesting Senate approval of United States entry into the [[World Court]]; Coughlin, an isolationist, denounced the proposal as sacrificing American sovereignty to the [[League of Nations]].<ref>''Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Formation of the Union Party 1936'', pp. 30–32.</ref> Long subsequently led the opposition on the Senate floor, and Roosevelt's proposal was defeated by a vote of 52–36.
Following continued diatribes, former Roosevelt Administration official Hugh Johnson issued a radio statement refuting arguments presented by the two demagogues.<ref>''Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Formation of the Union Party 1936'', pp. 33–34.</ref> Unlike Long, Coughlin reiterated previous professed support for the New Deal expressed in brief stints, and the alliance between the two began to fracture when the Louisiana leader became subsequently frustrated with the priest.
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