The Manchester Guardian warns editorially that serious measures were necessary to combat Nazi propaganda in the South African hinterland. It points out that some rural areas of the Union are entirely dependent for information concerning the outside world on Afrikaan newspapers which are “bitterly hostile” to the Allied cause.
“In a country to whose prosperity Jewish brains and finance contributed so much,” the newspaper states, “it is not difficult to gull the simple with the charge that the Jew is the oppressor of the ‘poor white’ and to encourage an ugly vein of anti-Semitism.”
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
