cruiting agent for Union Square….
And, finally, Mr. Gerard might warn those non-Jews who may be inclined to attempt to solve the economic problems of our day by the simple device of breaking some Jewish heads, not to be too hasty. They might get hurt…. Much water has run under the bridges since the classic pogrom days of the Czars. The Jewish people in many parts of the world have since then taken to heart the Biblical injunction “to teach the sons of Judah the bow.”…The non-Aryan has discovered the use of his fists…. Pogroms are not such simple matters today….
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