Attempt to Work Up Anti-jewish Feeling in France over Russian’s Assassination of President: Another

The French antisemitic press is trying to exploit the assassination of the French President, M. Doumer, for its own purposes, and for a time caused consternation among the large Jewish immigrant population in Paris, by spreading rumours that the assassin was a Russian Jewish immigrant. The “Action Francaise”, still claims that he is a “Bolshevik Jewish Agent”, and heads its report “Another Customer for Torres” (the famous Jewish advocate who obtained Schwartzbard’s acquittal for killing Petlura).

The Jewish population is greatly relieved by the discovery that Paul Goguloff, the assassin, is not a Jew, but a virulent antisemite, so that the attempt to stir up an antisemitic agitation over the assassination of the President of the Republic has miscarried, but at the same time there is still some fear that the fact that Goguloff is a member of the Russian immigrant colony may be responsible for a tightening up of the regulations for the control of the immigrant population in France.

Goguloff claimed to be the head of a body which he called the National Christian League, whose programme, written and published by himself, proclaimed that “in the new Russia which would be set up after the overthrow of Bolshevism no Jews would have any place, and no Jew would be allowed to hold any official position, not even in the postal administration. We shall not harm any Jews who help to bring about the Russian National Renaissance”, it proceeded,” and we shall even assist them to establish a Jewish State in Palestine, but their place is not in Russia. If by mistake or by fraud any Jew obtains election to an official position in Russia the National Peasants’ Party, and I, as its chief, will remove him”.