Under the heading, “Infamous Accusation,” The Manchester Guardian, noted English liberal newspaper, today denounced Julius Streicher, notorious Nazi anti-Semite, Nazi overlord of Franconia and publisher of the bitter anti-Semitic sheet, Der Stuermer of Nuremberg.
“Julius Streicher,” The Guardian declared, “publishes weekly an anti-Semitic paper exceeding all bounds of decency so constantly that the Reich government prohibits its dispatch abroad. He is too stupid and too violent to be capable of more serious employment and too well established as a preacher of his odious gospel to be jettisoned with ease or safety.”
AN OVERWHELMING OFFENSE
After describing the contents of the special May Day ritual murder number of Der Stuermer, which was widely advertised all over Southern Germany, the Guardian declared that an overwhelming offense is that the virtual governor of a large and cultivated city and province in Germany revives a charge against the Jews which has been so utterly disproved.
“He does so,” The Guardian said, “with the full knowledge that no other charge can work so terribly upon the passions of an emotional people, as the charge of murdering small children for their blood, knowing that the fable brought suffering and death to many innocent people in Eastern Europe in the pre-war era.
“If Streicher’s paper does not succeed in producing pogroms it will not be for want of trying,” The Guardian concluded, adding “for how much longer will the German government tolerate such insults to decency and to truth, allowing the name of the whole German nation to be thus defamed before the world.”
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