“Anti-Semitism used to be a secret weapon of Fascism. That is no secret any more,” Senator Elbert D. Thomas, Democrat of Utah, said today addressing the 16th annual dinner of the Yeshivah College at the Hotel Astor, attended by 1,500 guests.
“Nor is it to be wondered that Jew-baiting, on a highly organized scale, manifests itself even in democratic countries,” the Senator continued. “Those who foment race-hatred or minority-hatred, of any sort, are either the stooges or the sponsors of efforts to replace democracy with a fascist way of life. Wherever anti-Semitism continues to flourish, it is because there are a few men, articulate men, who fear democracy – fear the loss of power to themselves if the ‘common man’ really becomes free.”
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