Colonel Fulgencio Batista, chief of staff of the Cuban Army, in an interview with the Sephardic Jewish leader, Ben Segnior, promised that all manifestations of anti-Semitism and race hatred in Cuba would be crushed.
His assurances served to calm fears of the Jewish community here, aroused by a violent anti-Semitic campaign that has been conducted over the radio by a group known as the Anti-Judea Society of Cuba. The society’s announced program is to prohibit admission to Cuba of American Jewish tourists, stop completely Jewish immigration, limit and uproot Jewish commerce and bar children of Jews from the country’s public schools.
Threats of violence by the Anti-Judea Society recently forced in definite postponement of a scheduled meeting to protest anti-Jewish excesses in Poland.
In an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency representative, Herr Erytropel, German Minister to Cuba, denied that his Government was in any way connected with the anti-Semitic radio campaign. He said Germany was not interested in the Jewish question in Cuba. He added that Germans were doing too good a business with the Cuban Jews to want to do anything that might harm them.
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