BOYCOTT URGED
FORMER ISOLATIONIST U.S. NEWSPAPERS New York, Aug. 27. The United Press of America says that the Anti-Nazi League, whose president is Mr James Gerard, former American Ambassador to reGmany, has started a campaign to boycott the New York “Daily News,” which “tends to destroy our democracy and make us !os. faith in our national leaders n the hour of grave peril.” Campaigners throughout the city distri buted 100 000 leaflets urging readers • ot to buy the “Daily News.”
Mr Gerard said the boycott would x*end to the “Chicago Tribune" and Washington “T,mes-Herald ” All three papers belong'to the Me rmick ar>J Patterson families They ere noted isolationists before Pear Tarbour and are still hostile to the -overnment The “Daily News” has he largest American circulation, abou 1.000,000.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 29 August 1942, Page 2
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