Hector Charlesworth, chairman of the Canadian Radio Commission in Ottawa, denied the reported arrival in Montreal of a censor to suppress anti-Semitic broadcasts in this city.
However, the commission has taken steps to “instruct Station CHLP to cancel anti-Jewish broadcasts of which complaints had been made.”
The complaints in question came from the Canadian Jewish Congress and Peter Bercovitch. As a result, Salluste Lavery’s mayoralty campaign received a setback. Supported by such notorious anti-Semites as Adrien Arcand and Joseph Menard and guarded by steel-helmeted storm troopers, Lavery had waged an intensive anti-Jewish campaign.
Lavery’s connection with Nazi Germany was exposed by Oliver Asselin, editor of L’Ordre, who openly accused him of receiving money grants for his “war chest” from the German Consul in Ottawa.
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