Sen. Richard Nixon, Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, in a statement today to the Intermountain Jewish News and Jewish Telegraphic Agency, categorically repudiated charges that he was anti-Semitic. He said that the story of his alleged anti-Semitism was spread by Communists.
“I recently took my political life in my hands by opposing Jack Tenney, a protege of Gerald L.K. Smith, in the California primary for Congress,” Sen, Nixon commented. “You can’t imagine how much heat I took for that from the crowd that follows Gerald Smith, Robert Williams and those crackpots.”
The California Senator called attention to his voting record as an advocate of aid to Israel and to his role in framing a pro-Israel platform plank, for which he received a letter of thanks from: Louis Lipsky, chairman of the American Zionist Committee. Earlier this week Sen. Nixon made an unheralded appearance at the national convention of auxiliaries of the Jewish Consumptives Relief Society, at the Brown Palace Hotel here.
(In San. Francisco, the Jewish Community Bulletin reported that a whispering campaign against one of the candidates had flooded Jewish organizations with inquiries. The paper said in a front-page editorial that “a careful inquiry discloses at this time that none of the major nominees of the two principal national parties has ever been unfriendly to the Jewish people; nor in their case is there reason now in the light of all information available, to justify suspicions of that nature.”
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