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...Straton has recently been the victim of the falsehood by omission. A communication to you recently published in the CRIMSON affirms quite acidly that, when the Doctor addressed the Debating Union some days ago, he declared that "He (a man referred to by Dr. Straton) had some elements of human decency about him even if he was a Jewish judge." Dr. Straton, on the other hand, denies making any such statement. He maintains that what he said was "Though the judge was a Jew and not a Christian, and though he had had in the case to deal with matters...
...believe that anybody who listened intelligently to the speech of Dr. Straton must admit that both what he is quoted as saying and what he maintains he said are true. Literally he did say, "He had some elements of human decency about him even if he was a Jewish judge." But never in the world did he mean by this that a Jewish judge is not the kind of person in whom human decency is to be expected. Anybody who listened to what directly preceded and followed this rather infelicitous utterance must conclude that he meant what he now maintains...
...Straton's revised version of his statement, for it undeniably is a revised version, is a true report of what he said for it conveys what he originally meant in its context by the remark quoted by his critics...
...prejudiced is to be immoral. And who would think of charging Dr. Straton, with immorality? If we are to accuse him of anything, we must accuse him of choose English, not of loose morals. Saul Rosenzweig...
Every man be he Dr. Straton or Joe Forecast should, when he has made a statement, be willing to stand by it, and not wish to crawl out of it like a dastard. If Dr. Straton desires publicity, his is a good method of obtaining it. If, however, he wishes to see articles reporting his speeches written in a tone complimentary to him, let him think out what he's going to say before he says it, and not talk for a half hour extempore at the conclusion of his main address...