Documentary evidence purporting to link Dean Thomas Alexander of New College, Columbia University, and Pelham St. George Bissell 3d, Columbia senior, with pro-Fascist and anti-Semitic activities has been turned over by John Spivak, writer for the New Masses, to the Columbia Spectator, the undergraduate newspaper revealed yesterday.
Spivak told Spectator editors that at a meeting in Bissell’s home last March 9 it was agreed to launch “a more secret anti-Semitic drive—the secret part of a program which would carry on propaganda against the ‘world Jewish government.’ “
Summarizing material turned over to it by Spivak, the Spectator reproduces charges that Royal Scott Gulden, leader of the Order of ’76, conferred with Bissell and others at Gulden’s office and outlined an anti-Semitic drive to “defile the Jewish race.” Bissell is alleged to have reported during this period that he had recruited fifty Columbia students to the Order of ’76.
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