Quebec Premier Orders Probe of Anti-semitic Fascist’s Activities

The Quebec Attorney General has been instructed to investigate the activities of Henri Bellefeuille, the avowed Canadian Fascist, Premier Jean Lesage told the 35th Canadian Zionist Convention here today.

Bellefeuille, a Sorel, Quebec draftsman, appeared Sunday night on a Canadian national television program which also featured George Lincoln Rockwell the leader of the so-called American Nazi party. The Sorel draftsman claims to be the leader of a group of 400 to 500 native Canadians who meet in Montreal each month. Belle feuille has been quoted as declaring “I am anti-Semitic and proud of it.”

The Quebec Premier told the convention that Canadian history is a history of minorities, because all Canadians are members of minorities and recognize the need for accommodation among various groups. He said Jews were saved from absolute merger with Canada’s dominant groups by their right to religious and ethnic independence within the common framework of the search for freedom.

He said that the abilities of Canadian Jews enables them to enter either French speaking or English-speaking groups at will. He added it was the task of cultural, business and political leadership to be aware of excessive delays in the rise of minority groups to full participation in Canadian life because of prejudices.

Professor Salo Baron of New York, addressing the convention, said the interplay of Israel and the lands of Jewish dispersion would be a permanent aspect of the Jewish scene for the indefinite future. He said this could be beneficial to the Jewish people, and also to the world at large.

Alan Bronfman, president of the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University, told the delegates that the Jewish people did not need an Eichmann trial to remind them of atrocities. He said “our wounds defy all healing, and will continue for many more years. Who in their minds or hearts can accept the enormity of Germany’s crimes against Jewry?