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Bernard Shaw to Campaign Against Anti-semitism

CHALLENGED AS TO HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD ANTI-SEMITISM, GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, BRITISH PLAYWRIGHT, HAS ANNOUNCED HIS INTENTION OF CAMPAIGNING AGAINST IT IN THE PRESS AND ON THE STAGE, IT WAS REVEALED TODAY. A JEWISH NEWSPAPER MAN HERE, CORRESPONDENT OF ENGLISH PAPERS, WROTE TO SHAW ASKING WHY HE HAD NOT EXPRESSED HIS OPINION OF JEW-BAITING. HE RECEIVED […]

September 13, 1937
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CHALLENGED AS TO HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD ANTI-SEMITISM, GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, BRITISH PLAYWRIGHT, HAS ANNOUNCED HIS INTENTION OF CAMPAIGNING AGAINST IT IN THE PRESS AND ON THE STAGE, IT WAS REVEALED TODAY.

A JEWISH NEWSPAPER MAN HERE, CORRESPONDENT OF ENGLISH PAPERS, WROTE TO SHAW ASKING WHY HE HAD NOT EXPRESSED HIS OPINION OF JEW-BAITING. HE RECEIVED A REPLY IN WHICH THE DRAMATIST WHOLE-HEARTEDLY CONDEMNED ANTI-SEMITISM, STATING THAT THE WOULD SOON PUBLISH A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THE SUBJECT AS WELL AS A PLAY SHOWING UP ANTI-SEMITES IN THEIR TRUE LIGHT.

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