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Austrian Post Office Bars Letters with Anti-bias Stamps

January 18, 1938
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The Austrian post office, it was disclosed today, is refusing to handle mail bearing stamps issued by the World Organization to Combat Race Hatred. The stamps bear portraits of famous Jews who have helped mankind and are intended to counteract Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda. The first of a series of fifty to be issued by the organization bears the portrait of Dr. Paul Ehrlich, German-Jewish discoverer of a specific for syphilis.

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