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Justice Murphy Urges Vigilance Against Anti-semitism; Honored by Jewish Group

April 17, 1945
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Denouncing anti-Semitism as contrary to the principles of Christianity and of the Constitution of the United States, Justice Frank Burphy of the U. S. Supreme court today warned that “the hate now draped over the earth may find its way to this nation, in a different and perhaps unferseen way.”

“Should it come in the form of anti-Semitism, we must be vigilantly on guard he continued, He spoke at a lunche on arranged in his honor at the Hotel Biltmore at which he was presented with the 1944 award of the league of Fraternal and Benevolent Organizations of the Jewish Education Committee of New York in recognition of his services as chairman of the National Committee Against Persecution of the Jews.

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