The shadow of Adolf Hitler crossed the threshold of the city mayoralty campaign yesterday.
Allegations that the Nazi chancellor is in close touch with Joseph V. McKee, Recovery candidate, are to be made in a few days by rival candidates who are stopping at nothing to win the high seat at City Hall, according to George V. McLaughlin, campaign manager for Mr. McKee. He said that “faked telegrams, forged letters and trick photographs have been prepared for release by Tammany Hall in an effort to sway voters from McKee to LaGuardia. One such contemplated fraud is a cablegram to be made public within a few days, purporting to be sent from Chancellor Hitler to Judge McKee.”
Mr. McLaughlin raised a warning finger to the people of the city. He indicated that the greater peril lies not in any such relationship between Hitler and McKee, which was denounced as fantastic, but in believing such a statement.
The bitterness of the campaign was emphasized yesterday when Samuel Untermyer issued a statement rebuking Gov. Lehman and other Jewish leaders for their expressed doubt of McKee’s anti-Semitic views, and attacking Mr. McKee himself for raising the religious issue.
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