Popular resentment throughout the United States at the “recent bitter attacks against Jews” is an indication that “such Nazi methods do not find response in America, outside particular groups,” Attorney-General Francis Biddle declared today in an address prepared for delivery before the National Association of Attorney-Generals.
“Open, bitter attacks against Jews,” said the Attorney-General, make it plain that alien baiting has not yet been stamped out entirely in this country, but most of the rabid alien baiting organizations have been curbed by wise governmental action. Only a few states have passed laws discriminating against foreigners and others have acted to forbid class or race discrimination, Biddle stated.
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