“There is undoubtedly an undercurrent of anti-Semitic feeling in the United States, especially in the South and West, but I do not believe that such a movement can become a serious one in this country even under similar circumstances as those of Europe,” declared Professor Nelson P. Mead, head of the history department of the College of the City of New York, at the Horace Mann Auditorium yesterday.
Discussing before 150 history students of Teachers College “The World Twenty Years After the World War,” Professor Mead said:
“It is nonsense that Jews cannot be patriotic Germans. Many Jewish families have a longer German ancestry than most German families.”
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