The campaign which French-Canadian reactionary elements in the province of Quebec have been waging in an effort to prevent the admission into Canada of any refugees from Europe received a sharp setback last night when Minister of Mines and Resources, J.A. Crerar, who is the official responsible for immigration matters, denied the allegation that Jews are negotiating to settle 100,000 European refugees in the Quebec district.
The charge was first made by Maurice Duplessis, former premier of Quebec, who has frequently been accused of having fascist leanings. Duplessis, speaking at a meeting in a rural community recently, exhibited what he purported to be a photostatic copy of a letter from the “International Zionist Brotherhood” to Rabbi Jesse Schwartz, executive director of the Zionist Federation of Canada, stating that a meeting of the “brotherhood” in New York had decided to give financial support to any political candidate in Canada who “openly or secretly” would support the settlement of 100,000 Jews on farms in Quebec.
Rabbi Schwarts and Louis Fitch, K.C., prominent Canadian Jewish leader, have branded the letter a “clumsy forgery” and denied the existence of any such organization as the “International Zionist Brotherhood.”
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