Henry Ford feels that in the past he may have been too severe in criticisms of the Jews, according to an interview with Farm & Fireside. Asked if he believes the Jews a menace to America, Ford is quoted: "No, they are not a menace. On the whole they are a good influence. They are so much smarter than the boob Gentiles that it makes them hustle to keep up. That's where the good comes in. It serves people right if they let the Jews work them."
Ford emphasized that he had no prejudice against Jews as such. Jews are employed not only in his manufacturing plants, but by Dearborn Publishing Co. itself. He admitted he now felt some of the articles about Jews in the Dearborn Independent "had been too severe."
"What I oppose most is the international Jewish money power in every war," said Ford. "No matter what happens to the nations in a war, the money power always wins. No war starts without it, every war stops when it says so. That is what I oppose - a power that has no country and can order young men of all countries out to death."
"Most people who talk about world peace never penetrate to the cause of war. Pacifist organizations and others are just wabbling about the surface. As long as the international money power constitutes the invisible government of backward nations and has so strong a hand upon politics of the greater nations, peace is impossible."
"Profits of the international money power are not produced by peaceful industry, but by war; until we dig those influences out and expose them and neutralize them, world peace cannot be hoped for. That is the chief element of the Jewish question, for the international money power is Jewish."
"They have overplayed their hand, as they always do. It is destined, it seems, that such influences should always overplay their hands at a critical moment. Their setback in Great Britain and the United States occurred just as they thought they were sitting on top of the world."
"The Jewish question is here, and too many are afraid to study it. Neither Jews nor others benefit by concealment. At first I was blamed for bringing the question into the light, but public opinion now approves what I did."
-Wall Street Journal, Jan 26, 1926 pg. 13