Report True Wants 15 “big Jews Bumped Off”

The New Masses, in the second of a series of articles on anti-Semitic movements in the United States, says today that James True, head of James True Associates and America First Inc., told its interviewer that fifteen “big Jews” in this country should be “bumped off.”

“Then we wouldn’t have any trouble,” he is quoted as having said after characterizing the fifteen as the Jews “who run things here and are part of an international alliance to plan to wreck Christianity and the world.”

The article, written by Michal Hale for the radical weekly, states that the Black Senate Committee and the Dickstein House Committee on un-American activities have promised that Mr. True’s activities will be investigated. Headquarters of the True organization are located in the National Press Building.

The writer says that True mentioned only Professor Felix Frankfurter of Harvard University by name as one of the Jews who ought to be “bumped off and put in their graves.”

“Of them all,” he is reported to have said, “Felix Frankfurter is the strongest. He ought to be the first to go.”

Replying to a question from the New Masses interviewer, True said the names of the Jews appeared in the White Knight, official organ of the Knights of the White Camellia, which the writer alleges is a terroristic organization sponsored by True.

Among the names in the White Knight, almost all of whom are prominent Jewish leaders are Cordell Hull, Bernard Baruch, Henry Morgenthau Jr., William C. Bullitt, ambassador to Russia; Supreme Court Justices Cardozo and Brandeis and Jesse Isidor Straus, ambassador to France. The New Masses publishes the list in its current issue.

Accusing Major Ernest Brown, police superintendent of Washington, D.C. of shielding True from any official probe, the magazine quotes Brown as saying, “I feel that True is a 100 per cent American, 100 per cent in the best sense of the word.”