According to a report received here this morning a “Jewish Communist conspiracy” is being held responsible for the economic and social problems that developed while Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens was President of Chile.
A letter to the editor of “El Mercurio,” one of two major daily newspapers that is being allowed to publish by the military junta which overthrew the Allende government last week, stated in part that “the Jewish Communist conspiracy had to be destroyed. There should be a Jew hanging from every lamp post in Providencia (a large upper and middle class section in Santiago).”
The report was broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “As It Happens” news feature radio program. According to CBC, the letter to the editor was prominently displayed in an issue of “El Mercurio” this week.
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