George B. McClellan, former mayor of New York, is the latest prominent person to resign from Edwin Emerson’s “Friends of Germany,” pro-Hitlerite organization in New York with headquarters in the Whitehall Building, 17 Battery Place. In a letter received yesterday by Bernard G. Richards, chairman of the Jewish Council of Greater New York, 103 Park Avenue, Mr. McClellan stated that he had given up his honorary membership in Emerson’s group.
Last week Colonel William J. Donovan, Republican candidate for governor of New York in the last election, announced that he had never joined the “Friends of Germany” after Mr. Richards had written to him to point out that his name was prominently featured on that society’s letterhead.
Professor Robert Morss Lovett, well-known Chicago liberal and educator, announced recently that he had withdrawn from connection with the Friends of Germany.
The officers of the Friends of Germany, in addition to Emerson; who is chairman, are given on the letterhead as: Dr. John Hoving, vice-president; Lieutenant Colonel Henry W. Torney, treasurer; and Joseph J. O’Donohue IV, secretary. Among the members listed on the letterhead are William Hale Thompson, former mayor of Chicago; Jeremiah A. O’Leary and T. St. John Gaffney.
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