The American Liberty League announced that a regular meeting of its administrative committee at the Empire State Building today adopted a resolution declaring "false and without foundation" allegations that it was anti-Semitic.
The resolution said that because of "the studied attempt" made to convey the impression the league was anti-Semitic, it wished to deny that it "is opposed to any individual or to any groups of individuals because of creed, race or color."
Asserting that "the league resents the attempt of those who, because of self-interest or for any other reason, seek to convey impressions concerning its attitude that are wholly erroneous and for which there is no possible basis of fact," the resolution called attention to the first plank of the league’s ten-point platform:
"To preserve American institutions which safeguard, to citizens in all walks of life, the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Therefore to uphold American principles which oppose the tendency shown in many countries to restrict freedom of speech, freedom of the press, religious liberty, the right to peaceable assembly and the right to petition the government; and to combat the growth of bureaucracy, the spread of monopoly, the socialization of industry and the regimentation of American life."
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