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evidently not yet ready for bulk distribution, is a five-page mimeographed affair, blaming the Jews for all crimes committed in this country. Most of the Italians in this country, it alleges, are really Italian Jews, and they form the great majority of the criminal element in this country. In this pamphlet one may read that Sacco and Vanzetti, whose case was a cause celebre, were, in reality, Jews.

Of a different nature is the attack being made on the other front by such organizations as the “Friends of Germany”, headed by Col. Edwin Emerson, friend of the late Theodore Roosevelt and onetime Rough Rider, who actively aided the German cause during the War and remained in Germany after the American nation had entered the conflict.

Emerson, in interviews with a reporter for the Jewish Daily Bulletin, denied being an anti-Semite but admitted authorship of articles in which Jews were accused of being communists and in which Jews were described as “small, swarthy men with thick lips and kinkly hair.”

“PUTTING HITLER OVER”

These organizations base their campaign on “putting Hitler over” in this country. Their chief method is to repeat unceasingly that all the agitation against Hitler has been caused by the Jews, that the Jews in maliciously agitating against Hitler are endangering the peace of the world, that the Jews are so acting because the majority of them are communists and Hitler is Europe’s chief bulwark against communism.

They have not feared to make unveiled threats against the Jews of this country in connection with the demonstrations of protest against Hitler’s persecutions or the movement to establish a boycott here on German goods. The activities of these organizations and their leaders will be considered in succeeding issues of ###aily Bulletin.