WORSE THAN NERO

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 45, 22 August 1938, Page 16

WORSE THAN NERO

PERSECUTORS OF JEWS

The Rev. W. Lansdell Wardle, of Hartley Theological College, Manchester, after his induction as. president, at the opening of the annual conference of the Methodist Church at Hull, made "a solemn protest" against the persecution of the Jews, says the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post."

He said: "I know that in the past history of our own country there have been discreditable happenings of this kind, but when I read of the brutal treatment of the Jews in Europe today my blood boils. The peristent and devilish tortures inflicted on the Jews today are such that beside their instigators even Nero might pass for a gentleman."

Discussing the "evil of a Press dominated solely by the desire for profit," Mr. Wardle said: "I would gladly recognise that there is much to be proud of in British journalism even today. There are honourable papers and splendid journalists.

"But I know of no greater danger to the community than that type of journalism which, for the sake of profit, exploits the sadistic and the pornographic, and for 'thirty pieces of silver' will poison the wells of truth.

"Yet I venture to say that Methodist homes probably spend more on papers whose sole purpose is profit at the expense of truth than on the more reputable journals."