The controlled Nazi press today renewed its broadsides against Jews and Catholics and demanded that the Vatican “call to order” George Cardinal Mundelein, of Chicago, for attacks on Chancellor Hitler, the Associated Press reported from Berlin.
The outbursts were extended to include not only the Cardinal, but Mayor LaGuardia and Catholics and Jews in general. The official news agency distributed a dispatch blaming “Jew LaGuardia” for alleged immorality in New Yorks schools.
Mayor LaGuardia struck back by declaring: “Statements such as those can be referred to Deputy Sanitation Commissioner Binger, who has charge of sewage disposal in New York City. No decent person can answer or even comment on such filth.”
Reached in San Francisco, where he is attending the National Conference of Mayors, Mr. LaGuardia said:
“This is the natural reaction from the lashing given them by Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago a few nights ago. Cardinal Mundelein told the truth about the Nazi Government. And it must be remembered that every time the truth is told about them they descend to new all-time levels of filth and vilification.”
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