A warring that “anti-Semitism in New York has ceased to be whispered and has become an open instrument of demagoguery, a vast outlet for idle energies” is sounded by George Britt, who is Heywood Broun on a new book on anti-Semitism to be published this Spring, in an article in the current issue of the Nation.
The article, entitled “Poison in the Melting Pot,” reviews recent incidents of anti-Semitism, including the stabbing of two Jews in February, the picking of Station WMCA and activities of such organizations as the Bund, the predominantly Irish” Christian Front, ” the “Christian Crusaders” and Italian Fascist groups.
“This account of anti-Semitism in New York City today not have been written a year ago, ” the writer concludes. ” These things now abundant open manifestation were not happening then. But in 1939 anti-Semitism in New York has ceased to be whispered and has become an open instrument of demagoguery, a vast outlet for idle energies. If a few stabbings occur after all this poison of hatred has been poured into the ears of dissatisfied small people, who can be surprised? “
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