Although passed in the Senate where they were introduced by Senate where they were introduced by Senator Joseph of the Bronx. the two anti-Nazi bills were killed in the Assembly rules committee, the members of which felt the measures might prove too drastic in their effects.
It was said in the rules committee that many acts not intended by the legislator would be construed as misdemeanors under the bill’s broad terms. The measures would declare criminal propaganda, uniforms and insignia tending to cause race prejudice.
The Civil Liberties Union is among those opposed to anti-propaganda legislation pending in other state legislatures on the ground that under its provisions restrictions would be imposed on others than those intended in the measures.
The New York Post yesterday declared editorially that it is opposed to the anti-propaganda legislation in Albany and Trenton because “Both the New Jersey and the New York bills are a greater menace than any propaganda from Nazi goose-steppers–for both bills strike at the very roots of American liberty”
In another part the editorial declares: “To deny any group the right to speak is to undermine the rights of all groups.”
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