The most powerful tool now possessed by the Nazi and fascist enemies of democracy is their “appeal to the unthinking sympathy of the American people” which is sometimes “extended without sufficient attention to considerations of justice and safety,” Prof. James H. Sheldon, administrative chairman of the Non-Secretarian Anti-Nazi League, warned last night. He charged a renewed outbreak of pro-German sympathy propaganda by “virtually the entire German-American press,” the Steuben Society, bund-like underground organizations, and “such sympathy fronts as an outfit calling itself American Relief for Germony, Inc.”
“Such newspapers as Der Wanderer openly say that the death of a few million Jews is a small matter and nothing to be worried about as compared with the inconveniences which many more millions of Germans are suffering today,” Prof. Sheldon declared. Speaking at the League’s 14th anniversary dinner, he cited the discovery among the papers of Columbian leader Homer Loomis Jr. of anti-Semitic material from Einar Aberg, Swedish quisling, as evidence “that we are fighting the same evil whether we are fighting the Columbians in Georgia, the Ku Klux Klan, Gerald L.K. Smith or the followers of Sir Oswald Mosley.”
Among the other speakers was Senator Harley M. Kilgors, West Virginia Democrat, who called for a curb against the “innumerable hate-mongers feoding the fires of ignorance and bigotry.”
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