The resignation of James J. Walker as Mayor of New York City is the subject of jubilant comment in the Nazi press, led by “Der Angriff.”
The paper alleges that Mayor Walker’s corruption benefitted rich Jews who placed him in office for their own purposes. For this reason, the paper charges, the Jewish press has been whitewashing him.
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