Government officials today received word that the Costa Rican Government cancelled a permit for an outdoor anti-Semitic demonstration scheduled for yesterday in San Jose by an extreme right-wing group known as the Costa Rican Patriotic Union. The government refused to allow the group to parade and announced that it would have to hold any gathering inside a meeting hall.
A spokesman for the Coata Rican embassy described the “Patriotic Union” as a group of little significance and said anti-Semitism was virtually non-existant in Costa Rica. The demonstration was to have been in support of a proposed law for the nationalization of commerce. Actually, the measure and the demonstration were viewed by informed sources as directed against recent Jewish immigrants. The “Patriotic Union” charges that Jewish refugees admitted to Costa Rica as agricultural workers turned to commerce and gained dominant positions.
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