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War Failed to Stop Anti-semitic Propaganda in America, Anti-nazi League Reports

February 12, 1942
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Results of an investigation by the Non-Sectarian anti-Nasi League of the extent of anti-Jewish propaganda still being conducted in the United States were made public here today revealing that “the war has failed to stop pro-Nazi propaganda” in this country.

“In the New York area, Lieutenant-General Count Cherep-Spiridovich continues to sent out his distributes against the Jews,” the report on the investigation says. “Another member of the ‘ religious front’ is Col. E. N. Sanctuary, who is president of the 146th street Mission in the Bronx.” the report charges Col. Sanctuary with disseminating the book “The Hidden Hand” which is an elaboration of the forged “Protocols of Zion,” also the anti-Semitic books “The Holy See and the Jews” and the “Telmud Unmasked.”

The Anti-Nasi League has learned that Colonel Sanctuary is one of the keymen in Ku Klux Klan intrigues in the New York area. He shares an apartment with a “Colonel” Winfield Jones in New York, which is also advertised in the Ku Klux Klan monthly, The Fiery Cross, as the address of the Tocsin Press, publishes of the official “Klan Book.”

“It is not generally known that the Klen is active not only in the South but in the East as well, particularly in New and up-state New York,” the Anti-Nazi League reports. The Klan is still circulating the forged “Oath of Membership in the Knights of Columbus” which, like the equally false “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” has long been used to create religious hatred. Just as the “Protocols” have been employed to arouse anti-Semitic feeling, the “Oath” has been one of the Klan’s mainstays in developing anti-Catholic prejudice.

The report also lists the names of leaders of other anti-Semitic groups who are still continuing their activities. It concludes by appealing to the Government to put an end to the work of these organizations.

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