A group representing 5,000 Christian ministers affiliated with the Textbook Commission of “The Protestent” today demanded that the “Daily News” management apologize for the charges by its Washington columnist John O’Donnell that Gen. Patton was dismissed from command of the Third Army as a result of intervention by influential Jews. They said that O’Donnell’s retraction of the charges as unsatisfactory and insufficient.
“O’Donnell admitted that he was in error concerning the nationality of the soilder slapped by Patton and he admitted further that the Jewish leaders mentioned denied having anything to do with the dismissal of Gen. Patton,” a statement by the ministers said. “For these errores O’Donnell expresses his regret, but he does not apologize for the anti-Semitic implications in his statements concerning Supreme Court bratice Felix Frankfurter, David Niles and Sidney Hillman. O’Donnell’s description of these leaders as “foreign born” and his reference to Niles with an alias and his description of Hillman as “the Latvian ex-rabbinicial student” constitute inexcusable slave on the Jewish people of America. For this offense O’Donnell has not apologized,”
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