A number of left-wing Zionist youths, members of the Jewish Revolutionary Organization (OJR), clashed Saturday inside the Notre Dame church with rightist and neo-fascist youths of “L’Action Francaise” movement shortly after a mass was celebrated for Vichy’s Commissioner for Jewish Affairs. Xavier Vallat, who died here a few weeks ago. The right-wingers had turned the mass into a demonstration of solidarity with the ideas represented by Vallat, the man who was most responsible for Petain’s anti-Semitic policy. As the mass concluded some 20 members of the OJR, who had entered the church and remained silent until the mass ended, began to sing the “Song of the Partisans.” A clash ensued and police arrested 10 Jewish youths. They were subsequently freed.
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