THE DEPRESSION PSYCHOSIS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sill, —On my recent return from the north my attention was drawn to the fact that I have been credited by more than one of your correspondents with the statement that the genesis of our present economic difficulties can be traced to a coterie of Jewish financiers in New York- What I did endeavour to stress in my address to the students of the Otago School of Religious Education was that in times of depression people seek for scapegoats, and get a certain amount of psychological satisfaction out of attributing all their troubles to certain individuals or certain minority groups. It is an historical fact that since the twelfth century, whenever calamity has overtaken Europe, there has generally been a recrudescence of antiSemitism and Jew-baiting. I regret that my remarks should have been open to the erroneous interpretation your correspondents have placed on them. —I am, etc., J. D. Salmond.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21612, 6 April 1932, Page 5
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