The German radio today denounced Wendell L. Willkie for accepting an award of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, terming him “an errand boy for world Jewry.” (The veterans’ organization, at its midyear conference in Louisville on Sunday, voted Willkie its annual silver cup in recognition of his “outstanding example in leadership in promotion of Americanism and democracy.”)
The German broadcast said Willkie received ” a Jewish distinctive medal for ex-servicemen in the United States” in recognition of “his services to the English war party.”
“Willkie’s Jewish distinctive medal,” the broadcast said, “proves clearly once again, first, that the democracy of the Anglo-Saxon world is identical with the aims of world Jewry; second, that Willkie, by supporting the aid-to-Britain bill, has been an errand boy for world Jewry.”
The broadcast also quoted Dr. Stephen S. Wise of New York as demanding that Palestine be incorporated in the British Empire as a Jewish state and said this was “proof” that the aims of Britain and the Jews coincided.
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