the fascist Rexist Party and the National Flemish organization pressed today for an anti-Jewish boycott. Anti-Semitic propaganda has been intensified throughout the country.
Leaflets believed to have been printed in Germany were distributed in many towns calling on the population not to buy from Jews. One of them says “he who buys from Jews shoots his people in the back.” Another asserts, “No more war, even if the Jews want it.”
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