Nazi propaganda against the Jews spreading to the far corners of the world, has reached even the small community of Vryheid, in Natal, according to the Vryheid correspondent of the Natal Mercury of Durban.
A “scurrilous pamphlet broadcast in town praising Germany’s lead in the campaign against the biggest menace in the world—the Jew,” was brought before the town council by Councillor H. Ellis, the correspondent reports, with the suggestion that the council express its abhorrence at this call to racial prejudice.
After several members of the council had spoken on the subject, it was decided to ignore the pamphlet as “beneath contempt.”
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