A “good-will” trio comprising a rabbi, a priest and a minister, arrived here today from a two-month tour and reported that while relations among different American groups were improving, an increase of anti-Semitism on the Pacific Coast was noted.
Rev. Michael J. Ahern, of Weston, Mass., the priest said today at a luncheon at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, the 113th meeting of the tour:
“We were met everywhere with enthusiasm. It was not empty sentiment, but was evidenced with sincerity and conviction. In some of the cities of the Pacific Coast evidences were clear that anti-Semitic activities, at least in the form of rabid verbal attacks on Jewish-American citizens, were somewhat on the increase. When attempts were made to exploit such attacks in Spokane, Wash., the Roman Catholic Bishop and the Episcopal Bishop joined with other citizens in condemning them vehemently, so that the attacks were universally repudiated.”
Rev. Everett R. Clinchy, director of the National Council of Jews and Christians, arranged the itinerary and served as the Protestant member of the group. Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron of Baltimore was the Jewish member. The trio has traveled from coast to coast and back again, almost 10,000 miles by air, rail and motor, addressing 45,000 persons at meetings and speaking on the radio in fourteen cities. Twelve states and twenty-seven cities were visited.
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