Major-General George Van Horn Moseley’s anti-Semitic attack before the sixth annual National Defense Meeting here Thursday night calls for unanimous condemnation of the 70 groups participating in the meeting, Frank E. Gwynn, Pennsylvania Department Commander of the American Legion, declared in a statement today. Mr. Gwynn accused the retired army officer of a “scurrilous attempt” to foster “class hatter and religious bigotry.”
“This man who mistakes freedom for license; who is so viciously biting the hand that fed him for many years; who under the guise of anti-Communism preached the most violent doctrines of the Fascist-Nazi program, certainly did not express the opinion of the American women under whose auspices he spoke, “the Legion leader said.
“Sincere groups must be constantly on the alert to prevent a recurrence of such displays. The Mosely’s of America cannot be gagged, but they can and must be out-talked and the range of their voice limited. They most certainly must be kept from poisoning the minds of American Government.”
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