Anti-Semitic stickers were found today pasted on walls of buildings on the campus of Pretoria University, following the recent smearing of swastikas on other walls. Prof. C.H. Rautenbach, rector of the university, announced that he had ordered an investigation into the incidents, expressing the hope that both incidents might prove to have been “isolated incidents of an immature mind or minds.” At the same time, he asserted forcefully that the university is eager to assure Jewish students that they should feel “at home” on the campus. The stickers found today bore the slogan: “Communism is Jewish; Hitler was right.” The slogan was in Afrikaans. Barry Krasner, chairman of the university’s Student Jewish Association, conferred with the rector. Prof. Rautenbach authorized Mr. Krasner to make public a copy of a letter written by the rector to the parent of a student who had complained about the swastika incident.
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