Henry Ford, the DuPonts and E.T. Weir, president of the Weirton Steel Company, are among those who have aided the spread of anti-Semitic and Fascist activities in the United States, the illustrated weekly Friday charges in an article entitled “American Merchants of Hate.”
The article, written by Michael Sayers and A.E. Kahn, is accompanied by the purported facsimile of a letter written by Walter J. Cameron, Ford’s right-hand man, on stationery of the anti-Semitic Anglo-Saxon Society of America, to Fritz Kuhn, former leader of the German-American Bund, in May, 1937, advising that Ford executives were cooperating in keeping from the American press Kuhn’s relationship with the Ford Company, which had employed him as a chemist.
The article also charges that Senator Edward Burke, co-author of the Burke-Wadsworth Conscrition bill, was at one time a dues paying member of the Fascist Khaki Shirts, now the American Nationalists. Various anti-Semitic organizations, including the Sentinels of the Republic the Crusaders, and the Minute Men and Women of Today, have received financial support from Weir, the duPont combine, Aflfred P. Sloan Jr., chairman of General Motors Corporation, and A. Atwater Kent, president of the A. Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company, the article says.
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