Nathan Straus, at memorial services held Sunday by the Jewish Veterans of the Wars of the Republic, at the Riverside Synagogue, repeated his challenge to Henry Ford, which proposed a jury of ten Christians, eight to be chosen by Ford, to consider the manufacturer’s attacks on the Jews and render a public verdict. The challenge was made a year ago in Boston.
“He never answered that challenge,” Mr. Straus said. “Henry Ford is a contemptible coward. I wouldn’t trade places with Ford. I wouldn’t have his sin of maligning 15,000,000 people upon my shoulders for all his millions. I pity the man; he has been so deceived, but he is apparently not man enough to say he was mistaken.”
The veterans, in uniform, paraded from 131 West Eighty-sixth Street, headed by the National Commander, Colonel Morris J. Mendelsohn, and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Field Band. Colonel Mendelsohn, who presided at the services, recalled the historical dates relating to loyalty and service of the Jews in all the wars of America.
Other speakers were Representative Sol Bloom, Dr. William I. Sirovich, Maurice Simmons and Rabbi Edward Lissman, honorary chaplain.
A resolution to memorialize Congress to “demand that the Roumanian Government accord equal political treatment, and grant equal political protection to all the subjects under its jurisdiction, in accordance with the covenants of existent treaties between that Government and ours, and in the event of the failure of the latter to comply with said demand, to sever diplomatic relations between the Government of the U.S. and the Government of the Kingdom of Roumania.”
The resolution was introduced by Col. Maurice Simmons. Dr. Sirovitch undertook to introduced the resolution in Congress.
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