Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-08
ATTACKS ON JEWS
REGRETTED BY FORD
Statement Asks Forgiveness
and Orders Hostility Be
Discontinued.


NEW YORK, July S.-Through Ar
thur Brisbane, statement was made
public today, quoting Henry Ford as
saying he had ordered his Dearborn
Independent ito discontinue perma-
nently all articles hostile to the Jew
ish people," The statement expresses
great regret" over any injury the
articles may have caused.
Mr.. Brisbane's article, which was
copyrighted by the New York Ameri-
can and sent by that paper to other
newspapers, is based on a signed
statement, says Mr.. Brisbane, the
original of which is in possession of
Louis Marshall, lawyer. Mr.. Mar
shall, at Saranac Lake, said the orig
inal was in his office safe and photo
static reproduction would be available
to any one desiring it.
The announcement was made at
Mr.. Ford's request, said Mr.. Brisbane,
who quotes Mr.. Ford as saying: This
statement is mad on my own initia-
tive and wholly in the interest of
right and justice and in accordance
with what / regard as my solemn duty
as man and as a citizen"
Articles to Be Withdrawn.
Some of the articles already re-
printed in pamphlet form under the
title of 1.-The International Jew" will
be withdrawn from circulation, says
Mr.. Brisbane, who quotes MIR. Ford
as saying that the Dearborn lnde-
pendent in the future will be con-
Quoted under such auspices that
articles rejecting upon the Jews will
never again appear in it's columns.
William J. Cameron, editor of the
Dearborn Independent and a witness
in the $1,00O,O0O libel suit brought
by Aaron Sapiro, Chicago attorney,
against the motor manufacturer, at
Detroit, expressed great surprise at
the statement.
1T IS all news to me-" Mr.. Cameron
said, land / cannot believe 1t is true.
He added he did not believe the
statement was preliminary move
toward settlement Of Sapiro's suit
based on articles appearing in the
Dearborn Independent.
Refused $1,000 for Magazine.
Mr.. Brisbane asserts that on be-
half of William Randolph Hearst,
publisher of the American, he offered
Mr. Ford $1,000,000 for the Dearborn
Independent.
mo, won't sell it," he quotes Mr..
Ford as replying, "but I'm going to
make it a house organ and l am
going to stop absolutely everything
that could possibly cause complaint
or hurt the feelings of anybody"
Mr. Eord's statement follows:
I'm the multitude of my activities
II has been impossible for me to de-
vote personal attention to their man
agement or to keep informed as tc
their contents. 1t has, therefore, in
evitably followed that the conduct and
policies of these publications had to
be delegated to men whom ! placed in
charge of them and upon whom
relied implicitly.
ITO my great regret ] have learned
that Jews generally. and particularly
those of this country, not only re:
sent these publications as promoting
anti-Semitism, but regard me as their
enemy. Trusted friends with whom
I have conferred recently have as
sured me in all sincerity that in their
opinion the character Of the charges
and insinuations made against the
Jews, both individually and collec
lively, contained in many of the ar
ticles which have been circulated
periodically in the Dearborn Indepen
dent and have been reprinted in the
pamphlets mentioned, justifies the
righteous Indignation entertained by
Jews everywhere toward me because
Of the mental anguish occasioned by
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