Bolivian workers expressed their sympathy with the martyred Jews of Europe by stopping work for thirty minutes yesterday in protest against the Nazi massacres. All Jewish stores in La Paz were closed for an half-hour while special services were held for the Jewish victims murdered by the Nazis in Poland and other occupied countries.
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