Sale of anti-Semitic literature after a recent meeting of the United Christian Front and Missouri Friends of Social Justice on neutrality in the gymnasium of St. Louis University, a Catholic institution, has been condemned by Christian H. Winkelmann, Auxiliary Bishop of St. Louis, and H.B. Crimmins, S.J., president of the university.
The statements of condemnation were made after a special committee of the Jewish Coordinating Council, in an interview with Father Crimmins and a letter to Bishop Winkelmann, had called attention to the fact that such literature as William Dudley Pelley’s pamphlet, “Dupes of Judah,” and the forged “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” had been displayed after the meeting.
Bishop Winkelmann, in a letter to Samuel I. Sievers, president of the Council, said that the literature was “an outrageous libel against a race with whom we are all endeavoring to live in peace and harmony.” Father Crimmins deplored the sale of the literature and condemned it “without qualification as indefensible and unworthy of an intelligent person.”
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