Declaring that racial hatred is one of the two cylinders on which the engine of Fascism runs, Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes sounded a warning tonight that “Fascism is the deadly and insidious foe that we must prepare to combat without loss of time,” and urged the Jews to join in the fight.
At the same time, Secretary Ickes stressed the American tradition of the open gate to the oppressed. He praised as “typically American” President Roosevelt’s and Secretary of State Cordell Hull’s rededication of America as a refuge for those seeking a haven from tyranny, and urged the United States to set an example to the world of a government which values all men regardless of race or religion.
Mr. Ickes was scheduled to speak on “‘Progress’ by Purges” at a dinner in the Hotel Sherman commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Jewish Daily Courier, local Yiddish newspaper. His address took occasion to pay tribute to the paper which, he said, advanced the cause of its own people and made its contribution to the development of Chicago.” He also lauded the publisher, M. Ph. Ginzburg. The address was broadcast over the nation-wide Columbia Broadcasting System hookup.
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