An investigation was under way yesterday by officials of the New York Public Library of charges made by Bernard S. Deutsch, president of the American Jewish Congress, that branches of the libraries were being used for the distribution of anti-Semitic propaganda by Nazi agents in this country.
Mr. Deutsch, in a letter to Edwin H. Anderson, director of the library, said that “a circular containing a scurrilous attack on the Jews” had been placed in books on the shelves of many branch libraries throughout the country.
Library officials said that no other complaints regarding this had been received but that an investigation had been ordered immediately following receipt of the letter from Mr. Deutsch.
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