“The Jews are achieving things everywhere because they work hard, because they are enterprising and they also deserve much credit because they thus spur on others to work harder,” declared Henry Ford in an interview he gave to Herman Bernstein on the latter’s recent visit to Dearborn, made public by Mr. Bernstein today.
“They do not see the millenium in idleness,” Mr. Ford continued. “I have never had any animosity against the Jews. I am more than sorry that the articles published in The Dearborn independent did them so grave a wrong. I can assure you that my retraction was made absolutely without any mental reservation”
The interview covered several current topics.
Henry Ford could not in a thousand years make real retraction for the infinite harm and the mountainous wrong done the Jewish people,” declared Dr. Stephen S. Wise in a sermon at the Community Church.
“When will America learn to accept the word of a person because of his knowledge of that subject rather than because of his success in some one field of endeavor?” Dr. Wise asked.
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