The allegation that opposition in the United States to the proposed American $100,000,000 loan for Spain has been organized by U.S. Jews “to help Communism” is made in a long dispatch filed by the New York correspondent of El Diario Vasco, a leading newspaper in San Sebastian, the New York Times reports today from Madrid.
“Statistics that naturally are not published,” the dispatch said, “show that the majority of the Communists and Communist sympathizers of the United States are persons of Hebraic extraction, like the spies arrested for complicity with the great traitor, Dr. Fuchs, who gave to the Soviet the secrets of the atomic bomb.” As an outstanding figure in opposition to Spain, the dispatch cited “the Hebraic former Governor of New York, Herbert Lehman.”
This opposition is “captained,” the article said, by “the implacable enemy of Spanish-American friendship, the New York Times.” The article reported that the New York Times, in spite of this alleged anti-Spanish stand, had published a Madrid dispatch reporting the efforts of young Spaniards to volunteer for service in Korea, and that the Spaniards were astonished and hurt at the continued hostility, which it attributed to Jews.
“The purpose of this interpretation of the opposition in the United States to the Franco regime is not clear, but it is one of several flashes of anti-Semitic feeling that have shown up in the Spanish press in the past year,” the Times report from Madrid says.
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