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//-->STATEMENTHENRY FORDX\EGARDING Charges Against JewsMade in His Publications, TheDearborn Independent, and a Seriesof Pamphlets Entitled "The Inter-national Jew," Together With anExplanatory Statement by LOUISMARSHALL, President of TheAmerican Jewish Committee, and HisReply to MR. FORD.NEW YORKTHE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE1927STATEMENT BY MR MARSHALLSine* die public alien nf the statement by H«nryLU.I j.ii1.i.'~i,,™,hi,,,,.,;,:,!Ford re-.,.,::.-,••! ii-n,.i,,,-,. --.•.:• li . ' ! , - • ,: .;. , . . , - ,,:', • •, r.itu-t and in lh*i « .,0,1C explain the conililiaris umfcr which that document came into myuOn several occasions 1 have been apprrjached. by m i o mt-i^rsim Ii-iv.L-^!I lii'ii mi'l iii.]f"^Ms r.-.-'.L'fr wag uniformlyIhic if "he had anything lo prcpaftcI -wauM rcc-eLve andconsider: ^ ; ; .•i.1;:. S:;.!,.;ItfiH that those wham he had put in charge of The DearhnrnInitprofant ' " J taken idvarngge -of him by publishini the « " i «ofiitidt!nmclringtinjeitj,a,whbcliIhetitterhada\talirabfl^t; Iha, In li:,,j l.i-.,,..,..• i « i » i r , ( , ! ili-i. i.ll of ihe cTiSfJc?made ^ d i n s i ihcm. ' "foundatiun and unjudan;to put anti'J t w j towardhihim.There-UBflli,I.tvicivcd.Ihe Tils^orjofIhts;niLli.-^LinL fi1-^ .in.:' I11r.il'we.nileaMir - i .L.1-1.]\=.••[ -i'n i k . i T i L 1- f.Xth^rmtrV «.or dV-«u"rd not ti"(Sl 'ihe i n j W'I n answer to t i l s . Messes. Davis and Palnm InquiredMwhat might be done to Ijiim; -i,..:•. r vL-..i lilions. I a n j w t t1 hir^n,11.-..1 l( |,, iV;i .ii • • -h)-!i-I•.-• ! ".-•J'^^l•i lljl'vr[II1 :i.l H-.L:- T •-Aflei titilh.fr dl^cu^^ion. Mctsis. Djwis and Paima. said thatSranfday*,latrr I i,, J i.il . ,!11.r, -„•a,;.,,-, .,, !r i i l i ^ K d t-ll-BI FoMwould iceept lUeif . ^ , . ^ , - J I : - .riprt I,-I!;,.•.-;•! l u r l ^ r /iwusiat jiETSOHil InisrvJcVYi in mj. o.ffic,*,,tt^fr. Films, over llielusig diiianoe I^IL'.-I.'II i- LII"I -.1 irLr.',\w.lh i!\e rtstiltthat flilTbur^day, Jiai-.c ':"', I1i~rr^fr [\il:nri :nf<irinc4 me llial FocJwas really to ti(..i i!ir ln..^,nt-,t -J. ! •. li -i liTtm aitachti) milWhicll Iwllh jMvr«[h|t li'it,- ,..;..h,..^1. !• tv.r.! |.j Mr. Civis, j - ! . r i , ;bim ind Mr. T^:..-,i iu ^uifiti ;,. n - rjic •»:ilr.,iFin t s j n i i iThere have been so many rc-qucsla [ar ccpirt of these docu-ments and of n,v 1,-v.v , : .„ 1 .,-.l-:i«--.^iia' i l n t u i te Ford.that it na5I m 0^i:.,-,| :•. ii. , •!>,:!, !.,ic;'.-il to give them thepublicity wbicti is disircdhiall concemed.KCCiVfrdti>.lir n.,i] r.nFn.la).111!" 1. l'.iT.Itu'lln-iNtw Y«rk, July H, 18W.LETTER FROM HENRY FORDTO MR. EARL J. DAVISFORD MOTOR COMPANYrighteous indignation entertained by Jews every-where toward me because of the mental anguishoccasioned by the unprovoked reflections madeupon them.This his led me to direct my personal attentionlo thi& subject, in order to ascertain the exactnature of these articles. As a result of this sur-vey I confess that I am deeply mortified that thisjournal, which is intended to be constructive andnot destructive, has been made the medium forresurrecting exploded fictions, fOf giving currencyto the so-called Protocols of the Wise Men ofZicn. which have been demonstrated, as I learn,to be gross forgeries, and for contending that theJews have teen engagedma. conspiracy to centralthe capital and the industries of ihe world, besideslaying at their door many offenses against decency,public order and good morals.Had I appreciated even the general nature, tosay nothing of the details, of these utterances, Iwould have forbidden their circulation without amoment's hesitation, because I am -fully aware ofthe -virtues of the Jewish people as a whole, ofwhat they and their ancestors have done forcivilization and for mankind and toward the de-velopment of commerce and industry, of theirsobriety and diligence, their benevolence and theirunselfish interest in the public welfare.Of course there are black sheep in every flock,as there are among men. of all races, creeds andnationalities who are at times evildoers. It iswrong, however, to Judge a people by a. few indi-viduals, and I therefore join in condemning un-Tpservedly all wholesale denunciations and attacks.Those who know me can bear witness that it isnot inWynature to inflict insult upon and tooccasion pain to anybody, and that it has been myeffort to free myself from prejudice. Because ofthat I frankly confess that I have been greatlyshocked as a result of my study and examinationof the files of The Dearborn Independent and orthe pamphlets entitled "The International Jew."1 deem it to be my duty as an honorable manto make amends for the wrong done to the Jewsas fellow-men and brothers, by asking their for-giveness for the harm that I have unintentionallyDearborn, Mich.Tune 30. 1927.Mr. Earl J, Davis,Detroit, Michigan.My dear Sir:1 hereby approve of the attached statement -andauthorize you and Mr. Joseph Palma to deliversame to Louis Marshall, of New York City.Yours respectfully,STATEMENT BY HENRY FORDTO LOUIS MARSHALLFor some time pabt I have given considerationto the series of articles concerning Jews which,since 1920 have appeared in The Dearborn Inde-pendent. Sane of them have been reprinted, inpamphlet form Uftder the title "The InternationalJew/1Although hoth publications are my prop-erty, it goes without saying that in the multitudeof my activities it has been impossible for me todevote personal attention to their management orto keep informed as to their contents. It hastherefore inevitably followed that the conduct andpolicies -of these publications had to be delegatedto men whom I placed in charge of them and uponwhom I relied implicitly.To my great regret I have learned that Jewsgenerallyhand particularly those of this country,not only resent these publications as promotinganti-Semitism, but regard me as their enemy.Trusted friends with wliom I have conferred re-cently have assured me in all sincerity that intheir opinion the character of the charges andinsinuations made against the Jews, both indi-vidually and collectively', contained in many o£ thearticles which have been circulated periodically inThe Dearborn Independent and have been re-printed in the pamphlets mentioned, justifies thecommitted, by retracting so far as lies within mypower the offensive charges laid at their door bythese publications, and by giving them the un-qualified assurance that henceforth they may looktame for friendship and good will.It is needless to add that the pamphlets whichhave been distributed throughout the country andin foreign lands will be withdrawn from circula-tion, that in every way possible I will make itknown thai they have my unqualified disapproval,and that henceforth The Dearborn Independentwill be conducted under such aauspices that article*fltireflecting upon the Jews will never again appearn its columns.Finally, let me add that this statement is madeon my own initiative and wholly in the interest of.right and justice and in accordance with what Iregard as my solemn duty as a mati and as atFORD.and its just laws, it would be impossible to en-counter the hatred and rancor to whichourbreth-ren have been and still are subjected in otherlands. We could not at firstcredittheinformationthatThe Dearborn Independent had permitteditself to be made the vehicle for disseminatingexploded falsehoods and the vilest concoctions ofvicious minds, invented by adventurers who hadbarelyfound asylum here when tfiey attempted tointroduce the exotic growths of anti-Semitism.Happily such excrescences could not flourishon American soil. Happily the enlightened presso£ this Country treated them with contempt andas unworthy of notice. But we Jews none the lesssuffered the anguish of tortured memories, thenightmares of a horrible past, and the sorrow that,in spite of the progress of civilization, there were,those who stood ready to misunderstand us. Whatseemed most mysterious was the fact that youwhom we had never wronged and whom we hadlooked upon as a kindly man, should have lentyourself to such a campaign of villifkation appar-ently carried on .with your sanction.The statement which yQU have sent me givesus assurance of your retraction of the offensivecharges, of your proposed change of policies inthe conduct of The Dearborn Independent, ofyour future friendship and good will, of yourdesire to make amends, and what is to be expectedfrom any man of honor, you couple these assur-ances with a request for pardon. So far as myinfluence can further that end, it will be exerted,simply because there flows in my veins the bloodof ancestors who were inured to suffering andnevertheless remained steadfast in their trust inGod, Referring to the teachings of the Sermon ontheMount, IsraelZangrwM once said that we Jewsare after all the only Christians. He might haveadded that it is because essentially the spirit offorgiveness is a Jewish trait.It is my sincere hope that never a^ain shallsuch a recrudescence of ancient superstition mani-fest itself upon our horizon.Very truly youTS,Louis MARSHALL.Dearlonl, Mich., June 30, 192?.LETTER FROM MR. MARSHALLTO MR. FORDJuly 5,1927.Dear Sir:1 am in receipt of your letter to Mr. Earl J.Davis accompanied by your statement regardingthe long series of vituperative articl.es which sinceMay, 1920, has appeared in The Dearborn Indt-ptndent and which contains the most violent at-tacks upon the Jews. You now declare that afteran examination of those articles you fed shockedand mortified because of the harm which theyhave clone, and you ask for forgiveness.For twenty centuries we Jews have been acews-tomed to forgive insults and injuries, persecutionand intolerance, hoping that we might behold theday when brotherhood and good will would beuniversal. We had fondly hoped that in thisblessed Republic, with its glorious Constitution
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