The press today expressed gratification over the resounding defeat of Joseph E. McWilliams, anti-Semitic candidate for the Republican nomination in Yorkville.
The Herald Tribune said: “It is a heartening sign that an appeal to race prejudice hatred and alien doctrines such as his has been so promptly squelched.” The Daily Mirror “Thus another ‘little Hitler was stopped at the polls, America’s first line of defense of democracy.” The New York Post: “The primary results, in throwing aside McWilliams at least remove any chance of an outspoken Nazi being sent to Congress from this State.” New York World-Telegram. “This stern repudiation of Jew-baiters was at least one inspiring feature of city primaries.” Staats-Zeitung and Herold (German-language): “We never doubted that the rabble-rouser McWilliams would be resoundingly defeated.”
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