Henry Ford, denying authorship of the edition of “The International Jew” being sold in New York, declared through his secretary in a letter made public today that “steps will be taken to prevent the continued misuse of Mr. Ford’s name.”
In replying to a protest of Samuel Untermyer, president of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, which also charged that certain of Mr. Ford’s employees were engaged in anti-Semitic activities, the letter said employees could not be reproved for exercising their liberties.
The reply, dated from Dearborn, Mich., and signed by E. H. Liobold, general secretary to Mr. Ford, follows in part:
“Referring to your telegrams of December 16th and 21st to Mr. Henry Ford and acknowledged by letter on the 22nd inst. The book “Der International Jude” has been received and the writer has been instructed to inform you that it erroneously refers to Mr. Ford as its author. I am further directed to advise you that its publication contains material which was neither collected, compiled nor ever published by Mr. Ford and consequently he cannot be credited with its authorship without misrepresentation of the facts.
“Accordingly steps will be taken to prevent the continued misuse of Mr. Fords name in this manner.
“We also note your reference to certain persons employed by the Ford Motor Company, and being engaged in various activities you mention as being anti-Jewish.
“In this connection the writer desires to state that inasmuch as Mr. Ford has always extended to Ford employes the fullest freedom from any coercion with respect to their views of political, religious and social activities they cannot be reproved by us for exercising such liberties.”
Mr. Untermyer had asserted that W.J. Cameron, vice-president of the Ford Motor Company in charge of publicity was associated with the Anglo-Saxon Federation, an alleged anti-Semitic organization, and that Mr. Ford had in his employ Eritz Kuhn, a chemist “reputed to be a leader in German-American organizations here spreading subversive propaganda.”
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