(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Anti-defamation action with a view to refuting the charges made by General Ludendorff and other leaders of the nationalist anti-Semitic groups against “Jews, free masons and Jesuits” was taken by the Grand National Mother Lodge, “Das Berlinner Tagetblatt” states today.
Ludendorff has charged that there is “a Jewish, Jesuit, free mason world conspiracy” against Germany. The German mother lodge, “Zudendreiweltkugeln,” published a pamphlet in reply to this charge. The pamphlet declares, in defense of the German free masons, that they are patriotic Germans. “We would scorn that German who can forget Germany’s humiliation in the Treaty of Versailles and enter into contact with subjects of any nation which does not unreservedly recognize this injustice,” it states.
In commenting upon the defense, “Das Berlinner Tageblatt” declares: “These gentlemen, in defending themselves against Ludendorff, stand closer to his ideas than to the old free mason humanitarian ideas.”
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