Nazi leaflets which appeared on the campus of MeGill University and Loyola College today were called a “joke” by a group of students. The students made themselves known today to university authorities, apologizing for their act and promising that no more of the leaflets will appear.
However, the more serious issue of “hate” mailings to university students is still under investigation. The university has begun a probe of the matter in conjunction with postal authorities, and the Community Relations Department of the Canadian Jewish Congress is making a collection of the material and the plain brown envelopes in which it is sent.
“We are helping various government authorities in locating the source of this material,” a department official disclosed today. He said most of the literature comes from the United States, but that some of it is printed in Canada.
Several McGill professors have voiced their concern. Prof. W. E. Lambert said that the “hate” campaign is not to be laughed at. “It may well attract those people who are now slightly biased towards its ideas,” he said. Prof. Maurice Pinard, of the sociology and anthropology department, thought that the present unrest in Quebec might have something to do with the campaign. Prof. Saul Frankel said: “The increasing intolerable towards the French on the part of some English-Canadians may be important here. The same people become just as receptive to anti Jewish or anti Negro literature.”
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