Conde McGinley, editor of “Common Sense,” a publication recently named in a Congressional report on anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi organizations, denied in court here yesterday that he was anti-Semitic. He testified in a $250,000 libel suit brought against him by Rabbi Joachim Prinz of this city, who charged that anti-Semitism was the motive for an article in “Common Sense” attacking him.
Mr. McGinley further testified that his publication had used “many, many” articles written by Jews, even by rabbis. He added that he hated no human beings, Jew or non-Jew, but that he had “opposed certain Jews and Jewish organizations.” He also denied that he had meant to imply that Dr. Prinz was a Communist.
Dr. Prinz, in direct testimony, charged that Mr. McGinley hated all Jews, particularly their religious leaders. He said that this feeling had led to the publication in “Common Sense” of an article referring to him as “red Rabbi Dr. Joachim Prinz, who, not unlike Albert Einstein, was expelled from Germany for revolutionary, Communist activities.”
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