The Austrian people were urged to combat all manifestation of anti-Semitism today at a public meeting here at which Catholic and Protestant leaders were the principal speakers.
The Catholic representative, Monsignor Otto Mauer, asserted that anti-Semitism based on religious grounds was nonsense, and that, based on racial grounds, it was used as a political weapon to shift the burden of errors onto a scapegoat. Speaking as a representative of Protestant groups, Professor H. Dantine declared that anti-Semitism was forbidden a by Christ’s command regarding charity.
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