The Jewish Community Relations Committee reported today that several residents in the Roselawn section of Cincinnati, near the Jewish Center, found on their porches copies of an anti-Semitic leaflet containing the ancient canard of Jewish ritual murder for Passover.
The leaflets bore the Cincinnati address of the National States Rights Party, a blatantly anti-Semitic and anti-Negro group with headquarters in Alabama. Law enforcement officials were informed about the distribution.
James J. Benr, chairman of the Committee on Anti-Democratic Forces, urged all recipients to send the leaflets to the Jewish Community Relations Committee and asked them not to write letters to the press or do anything else about the leaflets to give the anti-Semitic group the publicity which was believed to be the goal of the distribution.
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