Small secret groups of anti-Semites who were forced underground by the new regime are still active in Algeria, an Allied observer who just returned from North Africa told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today.
The JTA informant said that these agitators point to the stars on United States Army cars and tell anyone who will listen to them: “There’s the Jewish star. Now you know for whom this war is being fought, for whom we’re invited to fight.” Most of the anti-Semites, he declared, are supporters of Pertain who hope that Vichy will soon again regain North Africa.
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