Warnings that anti-Semitic elements in Europe would seek to take advantage of the race riots in Great Britain, the political situation in France and the developments in the Middle East to spread anti-Jewish and anti-democratic propaganda were sounded here during the four-day meeting of the third annual congress of the B’nai B’rith in Europe.
More than 100 delegates, representing some 30 lodges of the Jewish fraternal order in Europe, attended the sessions and were admonished to be increasingly alert to these threats. They heard addresses by Edwin Guggenheim, of Switzerland, president of the European district of B’nai B’rith; Pierre Bloch, president of the France-Paris lodge, and Jack Morrison, president of the Grand Lodge of Great Britain and Ireland.
The conference closed last night after the delegates had been received at the Hotel de Ville by the vice president of the Paris City Council.
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