The recent Australian general elections have demonstrated that there is a marked hostility in the Dominion against the government plan to admit large numbers of Volksdeutsche immigrants, the Jewish Council for Combatting Fascism and Anti-Semitism declared in a statement issued here.
The Council pointed out that while a small number of the Nationalist candidates openly supported the Holt Plan for the admission of 100,000 German immigrants in the next four years, most candidates shunned the subject in public statement or debate. The Council also stated that the attempt to smear candidates who opposed the immigration plan with anti-Semitic propaganda had failed.
The Melbourne Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism has decided to send a delegation of four to attend the forthcoming Youth Festival at Berlin, it was learned here today.
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