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- From: nigel.allen@canrem.com (Nigel Allen)
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- Subject: Ad Featuring Image of Hitler Continues to Run in Business Magaz
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 23:17:35 GMT
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- Press release from the Anti-Defamation League
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- Ad Featuring Image of Hitler Continues to Run in Business Magazine
- To: Business Desk
- Contact: Myrna Shinbaum of the Anti-Defamation League,
- 212-490-2525, ext. 145
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- NEW YORK, July 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- An ad for an international
- courier service depicting Adolph Hitler continues to run in Business
- India (June 22-July 5) despite the parent company's promise to the
- Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to pull the ad.
- The ADL had received complaints about an advertisement for
- "Skypak" depicting Hitler in a swastika armband on a speakers
- platform surrounded by Nazi flags and supporters with arms raised in
- the Nazi salute which appeared in the March 16 issue of Business
- India.
- "After indicating that the incident would not occur again, we were
- astonished to see the ad...in the June 22 issue of Business India,"
- Kenneth Jacobson, ADL director of international affairs, wrote to
- Paul Moorhouse, group chief operating officer of TNT Express
- Worldwide, the London-based parent company of Skypak.
- "How could this have happened?" asked Jacobson, after "you told us
- that 'action of this nature will not be tolerated anywhere in the
- world.'" Jacobson's July 23 letter referred to communication with the
- company over a three month period.
- In an April 24 letter to Jacobson, Tom Bye, general manager for
- corporate affairs of TNT said, "We share your feelings concerning the
- content of the advertisement and I have personally written to the
- president of our agent company [in India] expressing our strong
- disapproval of it." Bye added that TNT "very much regrets any offence
- caused by the advertisement" and pledged "to reinforce our policy on
- corporate approval of all local advertising to insure such incidents
- are not repeated."
- In an April 28 letter to Jacobson, Moorhouse wrote he was "utterly
- appalled" when he saw a copy of the ad and expressed "our dismay in
- the strongest terms to the agent responsible in India." He added that
- "actions of this nature will not be tolerated anywhere in the world."
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