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be informed the reason." Attention is called to the tone which the

American Jewish Committee adopts when addressing high American

officials in the name of Jewry. It is not to be duplicated in the address of

any other representative of any other race or faith.

The Plattsburg Manual, published for officers in the United States

officers' training camps, contained the statement that "the ideal officer is

a Christian gentleman." The American Jewish Congress at once protested

against "Christological manifestations," and the Manual was changed to

read "the ideal officer is a courteous gentleman."

The Anti-Defamation Committee claimed that 150 American cities had

excluded "The Merchant of Venice" from-the public schools.

1919-1920

The Kehillah was so successful in its campaign that it was possible for a

Jewish advertiser in New York to say that he wanted only Jewish help,

but it was not possible for a non-Jewish advertiser to state his non-Jewish

preference.

And so it goes on, year after year, right up to the present day. The

incidents quoted are typical, not occasional. They represent what is

• transpiring all the time in the United States as Jews pursue their "rights."

There is no interference with Jewish ways and manners. The Jew may

use his own calendar, keep his own days, observe his own _form of

worship, live in his own ghetto, exist on a dietary principle all his own,

slaughter his cattle in a manner which no one who knows about it can

approve-he can do all these things without molestation, without the

slightest question of his right in them. But, the non-Jew is the

"persecuted one. ., He must do everything the way the Jew wants it done.

If not he is infringing on Jewish "rights."

THE CRY OF "ANTI-SEMITISM"

What people are now coming to see is that it is American rights that

have been interfered with, and the interference has been made

with the assistance of their own "broadminded" tolerance. The Jews'