Governor James M. Curley pressed today a campaign for the ousting from the State Tax Appeals Board of Alexander Lincoln, president of the Sentinels of the Republic, who has expressed himself as anti-Semitic in letters read into the record of the U.S. Senate Lobby Committee.
In a sharply-worded nation-wide radio address from the convention of the Massachusetts department of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Governor Curley declared:
“It must be apparent in the light of the Lincoln correspondence that the Sentinels of America, whose real name should be the “Vultures of America,” were organized for even more insidious and sinister purposes than the defeat of Roosevelt. They were organized to destroy the standing of the Jews in America, which standing has been built up through faithful, devoted and patriotic service since the foundation of the Republic.”
The convention adopted a resolution demanding “the summary removal of Lincoln from public office as an unworthy and unfit public official.” Lincoln, who is chairman of the appeals board, is now up before the Governors’ Council for ouster proceedings.”
Lincoln admitted to a J.T.A. representative that he “and others” feared one group was “seeking to secure world dominion.” He would not comment on the letter quoting him as stating, “The Jewish threat is a real one,” until the correspondence was returned to him.
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