The American Jewish Committee this week-end protested to Don Eduardo Propper de Callejoh, Spain’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, against an anti-Semitic article by Frdar Leon Villuendas, Bishop of Teruel. The protest, contained in a letter from Jacob Blaustein, president of the A.J.C., calls the article “virtually an exhortation to religious war upon the Jews.”
Pointing out that the article appeared in Arriba, official publication of the ruling Falangist Party in Spain, Mr. Blaustein said that “it is difficult to conceive that such an article could be published in Spain today without at least a tacit approval by the government,” although he added that the A.J.C. is certain that the article “in no way represents official doctrine of the Catholic Church or the views of its responsible leaders.”
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