In an article headed "Letters from Our `No. One Nazi' " in Tuesday's editions, it was stated incorrectly that Adolf Mahr, an Austrian working in the National Museum in Dublin during the 1930s, had a Jewish background. In fact it was his correspondent and patron, Albert Bender, who was an Irish Jew.

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