Warning that spreader of race hatred in America have met with much success, Associate Justice Frank Murphy of the U. S. Supreme Court, writing in the current issue of Liberty Magazine, calls for “100,000,000 volunteers” to fight racial propaganda, and especially anti-Semitism, “in every American home, farm, factory, union, church and school, in the press and on the air.”
Justice Murphy points out that anti-Semitism as a means of disrupting the unity of a demooratic people is a Nazi invention which is aimed not only at Jews, but at democracy and Christianity. If it is allowed to get out of hand, he says, “the seeds of Nazism and anti-Semitism which he (Hitler) has sown will rise to plague us long after the German High Command has been forced to surrender.
“Now is the time to stamp out all the traces of this Nazi-inspired bigotry, before it has a chance to get out of hand,” he continue. “The existence of anti-Semitism challenges every man and woman in the United States. Not only is American democracy threatened; Christianity is also thrsatened, and so I believe we Christians have a special mission to perform.”
Stressing the divisive effects of anti-Semitism, Justice Murphy states that “it is true that the first victims of anti-Semitism would be the Jews, but the course of history has shown unmistakably that one from of katred breeds another. Hatemadcened people would turn on a second minority and then on a third. Each of us in America is a member of a minority in some way or other. Thus we would see our country torn into a multitude of warring groups.”
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