A key member of the Social Credit movement on the campus of the University of Alberta was expelled from the party today for distributing anti-Semitic literature. Orvis Kennedy, executive director of the Alberta Social Credit Party, said today that Walter Klinck, 30, chairman of the campus Social Credit group, had been informed that his membership had been canceled.
Klinck was expelled after it was found that he had placed on sale at the Social Credit booth at the university bookstore copies of the notorious anti-Semitic canard, “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” Mr. Kennedy said that his party had disassociated itself “from this anti-Semitic nonsense many years ago.”
Several weeks ago, Robert Thompson, national leader of the Social Credit Party, wrote a letter to the Canadian Jewish Congress repudiating all semblance of anti-Jewish feeling, and undertaking to expel any members who advocate anti-Semitism.
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