President Juan Peron, as well as other leading Argentine officials, may attend the dedication ceremonies of the office of the pro-Peron “Organization Isrselita Argentina” on August 20, it was reported here today at a press conference by Sucher Matrajt and Dr. Pablo Mangel, president and secretary of the new group.
Outlining the aims of the organization, which was set up in February, 1947, the two officials explained that its formation was necessitated by the need to combat the growing and-Semitic propaganda which the “Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista”–the pro-Nazi wing of the Peronist movement–was spreading throughout the country. They said that the O.I.A. was established both to inform the Jewish community in Argentina of the patriotic nature of the new administration and to offset the “Alianza” propaganda that all Jews were against the Peron regime.
The success of the O.I.A.’s efforts was emphasized by the group’s spokesmen in noting that in the last Parliamentary elections, the government ticket got more Jewish votes then any other. The O.L.A. spokesmen pointed to the resent freeing of several Jews who entered the country illegally as proof of the sympathetic attitude which the Peron Government has towards the country’s Jewish population.
Meanwhile, it was learned here that a group of Jews detained for entering the country illegally at Posadas–despite President Peron’s orders that all such detainees be released –will be freed within a few days following the intervention of the O.I.A. and the DAIA, central representative body of Argentine Jewry.
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