Pointing out that anti-Semitic publications in the United States are still distributing anti-Jewish material once published by Henry Ford and later repudiated by him, the Friends of Democracy today made public the text of a letter addressed to Mr. Ford appealing to him to take the following steps:
1. Stop the further publication and circulation of pamphlets and books containing copies of extracts from the Dearborn Independent articles.
2. Repudiate the further publication and circulation of pamphlets and books quoting your endorsement of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" or quoting other anti-Semitic statements of yours which presumably no longer represent yout true beliefs.
3. Make periodic statements to the press, giving the fullest publicity to the action you are taking.
4. Proceed immediately to dissociate yourself completely from W. J. Cameron.
5. After you have taken the steps outlined above, you can prosecute for libel anyone who states you are anti-Semitic.
"Up to this date, we can find not a single move made by you to counteract the effect of an international propaganda technique by which your name continues to be exploited as symbolic of an elite leadership which is determined to create a society similar to that which Hitler attempted to build," the letter said. "Wherever men of ill-will attempt to stir the fires of racism, as a spark to such a society, they call upon the crowd to witness what Henry Ford had to say."
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