A wide variety of anti-Semitic literature was distributed at a meeting attended by about 125 persons at the Polish National Home here. The meeting also heard addresses by two nationally-known anti-Semites, Kenneth Goff and Corde McGinley, according to a report in the Newark Jewish News.
Mr. Goff, who was principal speaker at the meeting, weighted his remarks heavily in the direction of anti-Semitism, but primarily by means of implication and innuendo, rather then by direct charges. In general, his talk tended to “demonstrate” Jewish control of the United States. He also said that the alleged Communist conspiracy to rule the world could be traced back to the Babylonian Talmud.
Mr. McGinley’s talk touched on his lack of funds and on the libel case brought against him by Rabbi Joachim Prinz, of Newark, which ended in a $30,000 verdict against Mr. McGinley. Mr. McGinley denounced Superior Court Judge Howard Ewart on the grounds that the jurist gave him no opportunity to prove his charges of Jewish conspiracy. Subscriptions to Mr. McGinley’s publication, “Common Sense,” were sold, and funds to aid him were raised.
The published material distributed at the meeting, according to the newspaper account, was more outspokenly anti-Semitic than were the speeches. One of the circulars, printed by “Common Sense,” said that President Eisenhower is “completely subservient to Jewish plotters.”
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