borrar de los archivos de los Estados Unidos la injustificada mancha sobre tres millones de personas».
Fue el presidente Wilson, sin embargo, quien finalmente ordenó la supresión de este párrafo.
The United States Shipping Board sent an adver¬ tisement to the New York Times calling for a file clerk and stating that a “Christian” (by which is always meant a non-Jew) was preferred.
The ad was not published as written; it was changed so that it re¬ quested applicants to state their religion and nation¬ ality. This last form would seem to be far more objectionable than the other.
- In the first instance the employer states fairly what he wants.
- In the second instance the applicant is compelled to divulge certain facts about himself in utter ignorance of the employer’s preference.
In the first instance, only the two classes that can do business get together; in the second instance there is no clearness about the situa¬ tion until much useless effort is undertaken.
Why? Because the Kehillah demands it. And why does the Kehillah demand it? Because, while it is all right for a Jew to remember that he js a Jew, it is not all right for you to remember it.
Así, Louis Marshall volvió a entrar en acción con la Junta de Transporte Marítimo (Shipping Board), esta vez con ciertas demandas drásticas. Curiosamente, la protesta se presentó a través de Bainbridge Colby, quien fuera el último Secretario de Estado de Woodrow Wilson. El Sr. Marshall exigió:
«No por deseo de infligir castigo, sino en aras del ejemplo y del establecimiento de un precedente necesario, esta falta debe acarrear la destitución del infractor del