N.Y. Aj Committee Chapter Asks Mayoralty Candidates to Avoid Inflammatory Oratory

An urgent appeal to New York’s three mayoralty candidates to stop “the kind of campaign oratory that pits ethnic and religious groups against each other and that encourages inter-group tension” was issued today by the New York chapter of the American Jewish Committee. In telegrams addressed to Mayor John Lindsay, State Sen. John Marchi and Controller Mario Procaccino. Edward D. Moldover, chapter president, said. “The chapter does not endorse political candidates nor engage in any manner in campaigns for public office. We do reserve the right… to comment on certain developing tendencies in the current mayoralty campaign which…may have serious consequences affecting future inter-group relations.”