Ford Should Withdraw His Anti-semitic Literature, Says Dr. Adler

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

“If Mr. Ford will purchase and destroy the vast quantities of anti-Jewish literature which his publication stimulated in Europe, he will go some way toward making the amends which are suggested,” declared Dr. Cyrus Adler, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Committee, in a statement issued to the “Jewish Daily Bulletin”.

“A number of times, I have declined to make a statement about the Ford recantation and Mr. Marshall’s response. But since so much printer’s ink has been spilled on the subject, some of it in rather hysterical outpourings, I am giving the following statement as representing what seems to me a sober point of view,” Dr. Adler said.

“Open confession is good for the soul and I am always delighted when a man has purged his own soul. Mr. Ford will. I hope, derive spiritual satisfaction from his act.

“While the ‘Dearborn Independent’s’ policy caused pain and annoyance to the Jews in America, it did them no actual harm but rather reacted in their favor among Christians of intelligence and nobility of character, who felt under the obligation to make amends for the bad conduct of one of their own number.

“In Europe, Mr. Ford’s recantation will be of much importance to the Jewish people, especially in Roumania, Poland, Hungary, and Germany, where the myth of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion had been widely circulated and, strange to say, actually believed.

“If Mr. Ford will purchase and destroy the vast quantities of anti-Jewish literature which his publication stimulated in Europe, he will go some way toward making the amends which an suggested.

“As an American, I rejoice whenever a fellow American finds his way to the true spirit of American institutions.

“As a Jew, I feel that Mr. Ford had grossly insulted the Jewish people and that an apology was due them. He has made it and Mr. Marshall has accepted it on our behalf. Let the matter rest,” Dr. Adler declared.