Widespread general indignation was the reported response in Rome today to the publication and distribution to all delegates to the Ecumenical Council of a viciously anti-Semitic book published under the auspices of the neo-Nazi “New Order” movement. The movement is known to have neo-Nazi affiliations in this country and in many other European lands.
The 600-page book, a quality printing job, bears the signature of Maurice Piney, a pseudonym, and was published in 4,000 copies. It was sent free to all the delegates. Since the publication was not placed on public sale, it and its sponsors, who were estimated to have spent about $8,000 on the project, were presumed to be immune to punitive action by the authorities in Rome.
The volume contains a painstaking collection of anti-Semitic quotations, dating back several hundred years, including copious excerpts from the frequently exposed anti-Semitic classic, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In addition, the book, called, “The Flot Against the Church,” offers an innovation in such hate literature–a theory about the alleged existence of a “Jewish fifth column” among Catholic clergy.
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