That the Wolff Telegraphic Agency, the official German news agency, is engaged in spreading anti-Semitic propaganda, though not openly, was the charge made today in a sensational report published by the newspaper “Montag Morgen.”
The newspaper charged the agency with sending out a special service of an anti-Semitic, Voelkisch character, to the newspapers in provincial towns. The editors are requested not to credit the Wolff agency with these reports, but to designate them as special despatches. The newspaper cites in illustration, a despatch sent out by the Wolff agency in its secret service criticizing the Reichsrat for rejecting the protests from Bavaria and Wuerttemberg against the naturalization in Prussia of Jews who immigrated from East European countries. This despatch was couched in sharp anti-Semitic language, terming these applicants for citizenship “Kaftan friends,” “Polish earlock people,” “elements which do not create cultural values,” “bringing discredit to the German name.”
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