If the air here seemed less polluted over the week-end, it was because the city was relatively free of Nazis.
Most of them had gone to Chicago, where DAWA, the anti-Jewish boycott movement, was to open its seven-day national convention.
Only a few stragglers were left behind to keep the anti-Semitic pot boiling here and to keep the racial issue alive for the coming political campaign.
The Chicago convention is being held in the Hotel Stevens, which
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