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Anti-semitic Demonstration Occurs in Montreal; No Attacks Take Place

August 7, 1947
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The first anti-Semitic incident, similar to a wave ?s sweeping England, occurred here last night when a group of demonstrators entered ? Jewish residential districts with an effigy of a Jew hanging from a gallows.

The demonstrators, in a truck cavalcade, shouted insults at all Jews they met the course of their journey and threatened them with beatings. However, no attacks ##place.

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