Jacob Thorkelson, anti-Semtic Representative defeated for renomination in the Montana primaries, violently attacked Jewish newspapers in a statement printed in today’s Congressional Record.
Heading his statement, “Shall organized minorities control the destiny of America?” Thorkelson said: “The fact is that in the 400,000 words I have written into the Record no statements I have made on money, government or subversive activities have been disproved by anyone.
“I leave my case in the hands of the American people and if any one can find the slightest criticism of the principles which I have supported I should like to hear such criticism from the American people and not from an alien-minded, organized minority.”
In his statement Thorkelson quoted Jewish Telegraphic Agency dispatches and editorials printed in The American Jewish World of Minneapolis, The American Jewish Outlook of Pittsburgh and The Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
Based on Thorkelson’s own estimate of 400,000 words included in the record, some of them proven forgeries, Thorkelson cost the American taxpayer more than $13,000 for printing alone. Today’s diatribe added $125 to that total.
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