Anti-Semites who bolted a meeting of the anti-Communist America Forward Movement after failing to secure exclusion of Jews from the newly-formed National Conference of Clergymen and Laymen assailed Jews at a separate meeting as being behind Communism here and abroad.
Rev. Charles Vaughn, of Los Angeles, a leader of the anti-Semitic dissenters, said today he had been slugged as he entered his hotel room Friday night and that when he regained consciousness he found his belongings looted. He attributed the attack to “sinister influences.”
The America Forward Movement Conference, in session here several days, voted down proposals to bar Jews and to include the word “Christian” in the conference title.
Under the cloak of patriotism and anti-Communism a number of professional anti-Semites had rallied behind the conference.
Among those who endorsed the call for the parley were: Harry A. Jung of the American Intelligence Federation of Chicago, James True of James True Associates, Washington; Col. E. N. Sanctuary of the World Alliance against Jewish Aggressiveness; Robert E. Edmondson, under indictment in New York for anti-Jewish libels; Robert E. Hillebrecht of the Paul Reveres, Chicago; Mrs. A.W. Dilling, author of “The Red Network”; Charles B. Helms, of the Minute Men of America, and Royal Scott Gulden of the Order of ’76.
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