Anti-Semitic incitements in Argentina constitute “a wild growth grafted unto the healthy Argentine soil,” and do not at all represent either Government policy or the wishes of the people of the country, Argentine Ambassador Silvano Santander declared here today.
Mr. Santander made that statement to leaders of the Jewish community of Mexico who visited him to welcome him to the Ambassadorial post he has just assumed. “You may be sure,” he told the Jewish leaders, “that our Government is doing all in its power to fight against anti-Semitic incitements. You may be sure also that the Argentine people as a whole rejects such unhealthy manifestations.”
The delegation, led by Gregorio Shapiro, president of the Jewish Central Committee, included I. Z. Berebichez, general secretary of the central body of organized Jewry; Mrs. Dounia Wasserstrom, president of the Mexican Union of Jewish Women; and Fernando Jeno, head of Tribuna Israelita.
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