The Alliance Israelite Universelle, which came into existence 70 years ago, because of the Damascus blood libel, is to fight another libel, in the Austrian law courts this time, against the antisemitic daily “Tageszeitung”, which is trying to make a big Jewish issue out of a case in which a half-Jew named Gustav Bauer is standing his trial on a charge of attempted murder and robbery by presenting it as a typical example of the alleged war between Aryans and Jews, accusing the Alliance of making efforts in order to cover up the affair by corrupting the criminal investigators engaged in the case here and in Berlin. The Alliance intends by bringing the antisemitic paper into court to compel it to admit that its allegations of secret Jewish influence behind the police and law authorities in Austria and Germany are pure inventions and that it is unable to produce any evidence at all in support of its calumnies.
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