Julius Rosenwald made the following comment on published the following comment on published statements that attacks against the Jews by the Dearborn Independent would cease:
“Mr. Ford’s statement is very greatly belated. This letter would have been very much greater to his credit had it been written five years ago.
“It seems almost impossible to beileve he has not been deluged with evidence on the very facts which he now seems to realize are true.
“But it is never too late to make amends, and I congratulate Mr. Ford that he has at last seen the light. He will find that the spirit of forgiveness is not entirely a Christian virtue, but is equally a Jewish virtue.”
“I trust this marks the beginning of the end of the post-war anti-Semitism,” declared James N. Rosenberg, vice-president of the American Joint Distribution Committee in commenting on Henry Ford’s statement.
Jonah J. Goldstein, prominent Jewish communal worker, stated: “Truth will out. It is remarkable how one honest, frank statement can right a grievous wrong of many years. I clasp the extended hand of Mr. Ford and congratulate him for his outstanding, basic Americanism.”
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