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Ri/ special arrangement with I hr
American Spectator, Air. II attach
outlines a plan far an Lira Re
search, whose weighty and truthful
reports, widely publicized, can be
oj great value in combatting the
malicious purposes of lying propa
gandists. The editor of I he
Southern Israelite invites comment
on this proposal
Th<* most effective ami wide
spread lie, one which was made the
Basis for all the subsidiary charges,
was the notorious forgery of the
“Protocols of Zion.” The high
priest of National Socialism, Mfred
Rosenberg, gave this forgery a
distinguished place in Ins Nazi
classic, “The Myth of t lie I went iet h
I’entury.” I niernat ional syndi
cates proceeded to scatter the
hook far and wide. By the simple
trick of repeatedly referring to tlie
•Tiotocols" as genuine, tin* belief
was fostered in millions of (ierman
minds that here was a genuine his
torical document capable of shed
ding light upon the world's prob
lems.
Reactionary forces in England,
France and ot her countries of Europe
were not slow to learn the power of
the lie. To a slighter degree, because
the underlying economic forces were
in a less critical stage, the propa
gation of falsehood was carried on
throughout the world. As the
world’s economic crisis deepened,
however, this propaganda became
more unrestrained and more power
ful.
Large scale lying for political
and religious motives has emerged
in the 1 nited States within the
last three or four years. The suc
cess of European demagogues in
achieving political power by dint
of their .lew-baiting propaganda
has encouraged American counter
parts to make similar attempts.
An example of native hoaxing on
the ( Ierman style emerged recently
with the exposure by Professor
( buries A. Heard of the Benjamin
Franklin Forgery.
On February d, liKU. William D.
Pelley, a journalist aspiring to
achieve with the Silver Shirts what
Hitler had achieved with his Brown
Shirts, published a passage that
purpoited to be an extract from
the private diary of Charles Pinck
ney, a member of the Constitutional
Convention of ITS?, in which Ben
jamin 1 ranklin was quoted in an
attack upon the Jews that could
compete with the vilest outpour
ings of Hitler or (loebbels. Mr. Pel-
ley s story was that Pinckney’s diary
had l>een destroyed in Sherman’s
march to the sea during the Civil
War, but that a copy in the hands
of a descendant had yielded the
opinion that he quoted. ‘ Mr. Pelley
was careful not to state in whose
possession the copy was at the
moment.
Thereafter this latest lilxd began
to follow tin* usual road of anti-
Semitic charges. In August of the
same year an anti-Jewish inter
national news service with head
quarters in Germany reprinted thi-
alleged quotation giving another
source for it. From Germany it
traveled to Switzerland where a
Nazi organ published the quotation
giving the (ierman periodical a>
its source. From Switzerland the
libel traveled to New York where
the correspondent of the anti-
Semitic Stuermer in Nurember,
Germany, sent it to his paper a>
another peg on which to hand the
villification of the Jew. Late in
September the Jewish Daily Bulk-
tin reported this article as it ap
peared in the Stuermer, and five
days later Robert E. Edmondson of
New York, who has been specializ
ing in the distiihution of anti-
Semitic handbills, sent out this
alleged prophecy to his mailing
list.
When Professor Beard came a-
cross this handbill, he was at once
amazed and shocked by the docu
ment. He said: “This alleged
‘Prophecy’ ascribed to Franklin
is a crude forgery, and his name
should be cleared of the crass prej
udices attributed to him. There
is in our historical records no evi
dence whatever of any basis for the
falsehood.”
As the flood of lies arise whereby
Roosevelt the Episcopalian becomes
Rosenfeld the Jew’; whereby Ber
nard M. Baruch is converted into
Manassas the sawyer; whereby the
“Protocols” are fed to the credulous
in increasing doses; it. becomes
increasingly questionable whether
the traditional policies of liberalism
are adequate for their own self-
preservation. The traditions of the
liberal bid him cling to the preser
vation of freedom of speech, of the
press, and of assembly. By and
large, liberals hold aloft the banner
with the inscription, ‘‘Give the
people light and they will find their
own way.” At the same time,
even the liberals, once they depart
from the political scene, know that
this slogan is not enough. An in
stance of this is to be seen in the
rallying of liberal influence to the
support of legislative measures t
regulate advertising, in order
protect the consumer from de
ception and exploitation. It 1>
common knowdedge that in the
sale of commodities the best and
comparably the least costly item
will rarely, if ever, meet with the
success that comes to the
advertised item. The application
of this truism, however, has n<>
yet been made in the realm -
politics. (.Please turn to Page -
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