Edouard Herriot, former Premier of France, addressed a mass meeting in Lyons in protest against the withdrawal of human rights from the Jews in Germany. At a meeting here addressed by Leon Blum, there was organized a League to Combat Anti-Semitism. M. Blum, in a rousing address, associated himself in the protest against the maltreatment of Jews as one who himself had been born a Jew and had never forgotten that be was a Jew.
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