Benjamin H. Freedman, founder of the League for Peace with Justice in Palestine, who is a principal witness in a libel suit action now taking place in Mid-Manhattan Magistrates Court, said today that although his parents were Jewish, his wife and children are Catholic and he attends church services regularly. He has not been able to be baptized, however, he said. He added that he has studied at length “under Jesuit Fathers.”
Appearing today at the libel suit trial brought against the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League by Hallam Richardson, attorney for his group, Freedman admitted that he has spent $100,000 in newspaper advertisements which espoused his group’s anti-Zionist views. He said, under cross-examination, that he had “frequently been in touch” with the representatives of various Arab states in this country during the past few years. Yesterday he confined that he had extended in a cable to Cairo “full encouragement” to the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem.
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