
Largely self-educated, Pelley became a journalist and gained respect for his writing skills, his articles eventually appearing in national publications. and took a vast amount of pride in the assumption that the Tribe of Pelley could trace its genealogy back in an unbroken line to one Sir John Pelley, knighted and sponsored by Good Queen Elizabeth which attested, of course, that the Pelleys were English." Pelley reports "My first observations of life that impressed themselves upon my mind and caused me to marvel at the mortal status in which I now found myself, began in that parsonage beside a country church. His earliest memories dated to when he was about two-years-old, residing in Prescott, Massachusetts. His father was initially a Southern Methodist Church minister, later a small businessman and shoemaker.Īccording to "The Door to Revelation" (1939), an autobiography of Pelley, he could not remember his early life in Lynn. He was the son of William George Apsey Pelley and his wife Grace Goodale.
4 The "Million Man March" and April coupīorn in Lynn, Massachusetts, William Dudley Pelley grew up in poverty. Pelley is the author of several works, and is the creator of the Pelley Doctrine, which dictates that the New United States will use 'all force' to secure its own territory. Pelley's position as a close German ally during World War II saw America become a member of the Axis Powers - its military strength saw the Axis victorious in Europe but a conflict with Japan during the same period led to America's isolation from the Axis and a withdrawal into a strongly isolationist foreign policy which remains today. His regime was marked by a strong anti-Semitic policy which saw Jews persecuted within the NUS and many deported to Europe for extermination by the Nazis, of whom Pelley was a strong admirer. Pelley's leadership of the NUS saw it come to a position as a dominant global power. William Dudley Pelley (March 12, 1880-July 1, 1965) was an American fascist leader who served firstly as Acting President of the United States of America after taking power in a coup de etat on April 9, 1936, and from then on as the first Chief of State of the New United States from 1936 until his death, though for the last decade of his leadership he was largely a figurehead.