Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Ford, having permitted his weekly magazine, the Dearborn Independent, generally to vituperate Jews since 1920 and so stir up an anti-Semitism strange to the U. S., last week recanted everything that that weekly had printed against Jews. His confession of error...
...Confessors. Henry Ford's confessors in this matter were Arthur Brisbane, William Randolph Hearst's editor, and Louis Marshall of Manhattan, potent constitutional lawyer and president of the American Jewish Committee...
...Lawyer Marshall, Mr. Ford had sent two of his agents (Earl J. Davis of Detroit, onetime [1924-25] Assistant Attorney General of the U. S., and one Joseph Palma of Manhattan). They asked Lawyer Marshall how Mr. Ford could most efficaciously erase the Jewish animosity that he had created against himself. Mr. Marshall, speaking for all U. S. Jews, asked for a clearly defined, written recantation of the Dearborn Independent and "International Jew" articles...
...Ford's answer to this was last week's statement, a copy of which he sent to Arthur Brisbane with the instructions: "Here's a statement that I have made. Write around it in any way you like." Editor Brisbane with a newspaper "scoop" in his hands, forebore using it exclusively; shared it with all press associations and Manhattan newspapers...
...Schwimmer, a Hungarian, has an international reputation as author, lecturer, pacifist, has frequently accused the U. S. of "militarism." Her eloquence helped in persuading Henry Ford that he could take an ocean trip and stop the World War-a proceeding which was generally felt to have added much to the existent European impression of the U. S. as a country richly peopled with moneyed madmen...