The flood of anti-Semitic and anti-Negro mail which has hit the Toronto area was denounced today by the Rev. F.H. Wilkinson, the Anglicon (Episcopal) Bishop of the Toronto Diocese.
He said in a statement that he “strongly” resented and protested “the crude and vicious attacks against Jews, Negroes and other minority groups that are being distributed through the mails.”
“It is an affront to Christianity that these attacks insinuate that hatred of minority groups is in the defense of Christianity,” he added. “Christians fought and died to wipe out the disease of hatred engendered by the Nazi philosophy. It is intolerable that this hatred should be allowed to incite in a country where the price of freedom from it came so high.”
The Bishop expressed the hope that “the present investigation into this matter will be pursued and that those responsible will be prosecuted under the present law, but unfortunately it may well be that existing legislation is inadequate.”
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