Anti-Nazis receive a prominent place among the 31 citations of groups and individuals contained in the tenth annual “honor roll” published in The Nation, liberal weekly.
William E. Dodd, former Ambassador to Germany, is mentioned for protesting American representation at the Nuremberg Nazi Congress; Cardinal Mundelein, for “expressing the best elements of his church in his condemnation of persecutions in Nazi Germany,” and the Town Council of Southbury, Conn., “for setting an example of stubborn local opposition to the advance of the Nazi training camps in America.”
Jews named in the honor roll are: Sidney Hillman, for his union activities; Morris L. Ernst, for fighting “the Hague dictatorship in Jersey City,” Judge Julian W. Mack for a recent Federal Circuit Court decision and Arthur Garfield Hays.
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