A Jewish cultural club in the Buenes Aires suburb of Villa Crespo was attacked this week by a band of armed hoodlums, it was reported today. Jews who defended themselves against the attackers were arrested.
Minister of the Interior Felipe Urdapilleta, meanwhile, has issued an order to the chief of the federal police, instructing him to suppress all anti-Semitic demenstrations and disturbances. In an announcement disclosing issuance of the order Urtapilleta said that “it is the Government’s intention to wipe out the origins of the present racial campaigns.”
The police came in for further attack today because of their laxity in dealing with anti-Jewish incidents, in statements issued by the League for Human Rights and the “Exhortacion Democratica, an organization advocating a merger of all democratic forces in Argentina.
(The New York Herald-Tribune reports today that an anti-Semitic and anti-democratic demonstration was held in the center of Buenes Aires yesterday. Members of the Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista, one of the chief nationalist groups supporting Peron, distributed leaflets denouncing Jews, students and democratic political parties. One said: “Neither Jews nor traitors will ever govern.” The police, the Tribune dispatch says, failed to take any action against the demonstrators.)
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