How anti-Semitic propaganda was spread in the United States by organizations and publications working under the direction of German Propaganda Minister Goebble, was disclosed today by Assistant U. S. Attorney General Norman M. Littell, addressing the Conference to Combat Anti-Semitism, convened by the American Jewish Congress.
“Nazi money was distributed in convenient denominations to agents and publications here and abroad — in packs of twenty dollar bills here in the United States and in five pound notes in England. “the Assistant Attorney General said. “Not only in our country but throughout the world the German publication World Service spread of National Socialism. Here and abroad these organizations spread the germ of anti-Semitism, penetrating at every opportunity through carefully compiled lists of names into the Armed Forced ,attempting to undermine their loyalty to the existing form of government in this country.” Mr. Littell called for turning “the full light of informed public scrutiny upon every incident, upon every specious argument, upon all those who give ip service to our liberties but condone oppression and ignore attack upon minorities.”
Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, addressing the conference, said that “anti-Semitism is a peculiarly virulent and percipient form of prejudices” which must be combatted by religion. “When we come to consider the rale religion should ply in combatting anti-Semitism, so far as the Christian religion i is concerned it should be made clear it gives no sanction to such prejudice,” he said. “Not only were the Founder and the early Christian leaders members of the Jewish race but they emphasized the point that all mankind were children of a common Father.”
Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, told the Conference that it is expected that the end of the war will bring labor in this country to one of its greatest crises in its history. “Anti-Semitism,” he predicted, “will be utilized as a poison gas weapon, designed to fam bewilderment and confusion, to set worker against worker, to sow distrust in the ranks of labor itself – all as an instrument for the achievement of reaction’s aims. Against all this labor must set its face like the Rock of Gibraltar.”
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