So, Louis Marshall got into action again with the Shipping Board, this time with certain drastic de¬ mands. Strangely enough, the protest was lodged through Bainbridge Colby, who was Woodrow Wilson’s last Secretary of State. Mr. Marshall demanded:
“Not because of any desire for inflicting punishment, but for the sake of example and the establishment of a necessary precedent, this offense should be followed by a dismissal from the public service of the offender, and the public should be informed of the reason.”
Attention is particularly called to the tone which Mr. Marshall adopts when addressing high American officials in the name of the Jewish Committee. It is “JEWISH RIGHTS” CLASH WITH AMERICAN RIGHTS 165 not to be duplicated in the addresses of any other rep¬ resentatives of other nationalities or faiths.
Unfortunately for Mr. Marshall’s plan of punish¬ ment, the object of his wrath was found to be a woman, and she was not discharged, although the Jewish Com¬ mittee got an apology from Charles M. Schwab.
The Federal Reserve Bank and Liberty Loan Com¬ mittee also got in wrong when an advertisement was printed calling for a “Stenographer for the Liberty Loan Committee (Christian).” Protest was made to Benjamin Strong, governor of the Federal Reserve Bank and chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee, and the advertisement was withdrawn. But this was not enough. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo was also drawn in to express his “reprobation for an unpatriotic act.”
An officer in the Quartermaster’s Department re¬ plied to a young woman who applied for the position of secretary to him that he preferred not to have Jews on his office staff. He was reprimanded upon the re¬ quest of Mr. Marshall.