Indications that the results of the Congressional investigation into Nazi and other un-American activities will startle the nation were expressed by John W. McCormack, chairman of the committee, who spoke at a private meeting in his honor at the Dorchester Manor, Mattapan, Mass.
At the reception, arranged by a local non-partisan and non-sectarian committee, McCormack promised that those guilty of un-American tactics will be punished.
Speaking of Jews, he said, “I have nothing but contempt for that Jew who seeks to hide his origin and shrinks away from his religious and national past.”
The Congressional investigation, McCormack declared, is not particularly interested in the Jews or any other nationality. Fundamentally he said, he is serving as chairman of a committee which has uncovered evidence indicating that there is a plot afoot to disseminate national hatred and religious prejudice.
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