The Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, chairman of the Committee on Goodwill Between Jews and Christians, of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and one of the outstanding Masons in the United States, commented in a statement made to the Jewish Daily Bulletin on the anti-Semitic bias manifested in several of the Old Prussian Masonic lodges, which announced that they are in sympathy with General Ludendorf’s views and keep their organizations “free of Jews.”
“I have no patience or sympathy with this position taken by Masonic Lodges in Germany or anywhere else so long as it savors of race discrimination and prejudice,” Dr. Cadman declared. “I am very happy to feel that in our own Masonic fraternities especially in the United States and Great Britain, such things do not prevail.
“Of course as you know Masonry is not everywhere on an equal scale, but it is to be fervently hoped that we shall lead the way to a larger and more humane position,” he declared.
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