Report U.S. Pogrom Planned for September

A pogrom against American Jews next month for which arms and forces are said to be ready — has been threatened by James True, an anti-Semitic leader in Washington, according to revelations which will appear in the New Masses tomorrow.

The radical weekly says it has placed evidence of the “proposed massacre” before President Roosevelt, the Senate’s investigating committee on civil liberties and the Washington superintendent of police with a demand for actions.

Fingering a revolver, True, in his office in the National Press Building, was quoted as telling Porter Niles of the New Masses:

“We’re getting set: We’re preparing for September. When we have the pogrom, not even our ‘pet Jews’ will stay alive.” True heads the James True Associates and America First, Inc.

Questioned by a New York World-Telegram reporter in Washington, True admitted that he was interested “in getting rid of political Jews.”

Describing True’s plans, the New Masses says:

“The man who predicts the September pogrom heads two important anti-Semitic societies in Washington, D.C. He boasts that he can readily obtain sufficient guns and all the ammunition required. He has patented a special weapon which he calls the ‘Kike-Killer.’ He is fostering the terroristic, anti-Semitic Knights of the White Camellia. He was active in calling, and will participate in the august 12 to 16 Asheville, N.C., conference which will be attended by the leading anti-Semites of America.”

True is one of the signers, along with a number of notorious anti-Semites, of the call for the National Conference of Clergymen and laymen at Asheville, N.C. It states that the meeting is “for Christian Americanism against Atheistic Communism.” The New Masses article lists among the signers of the call Harry A. Jung, Colonel E. M. Sanctuary, Robert Edmund Edmondson, as well as Professor E. W. Kemmerer, of Princeton University, and Dr. Robert H. Gault, Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University.