(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The unique experience of wild-charges against the Jews, made by an anti-Semitic paper, being denied by the same paper because of the unexpected results, is the lot of the “Lietuva,” the official organ of the Lithuanian government.
The “Lictuva” recently published an article in which Lithuanian Jews were attacked on the ground that in commercial transactions, they were refusing to accept Lithuanian currency and were demanding payment in U. S. Dollars.
The “Lietuva,” however, soon found that it had defeated its own purpose in publishing these charges.
The accusations spread among the Lithuanian peasants, who began to refuse Lithuanian currency in payment of their products. If Lithuanian currency is not accepted by the Jews, it probably is not safe, they reasoned. The “Lietuva” has now started a campaign intended to persuade the peasants that its previous charge against the Jews was not correct and that the Jews gladly accept Lithuanian currency.
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