(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Sensational revelations with regard to an attempt made by the anti-Semites of various countries to create an anti-Semitic international are made today by the “Israelitsches Familienblatt,” a German Jewish weekly here.
The revelations are based on a copy of the minutes of the anti-Semitic congress held in Budapest in October, 1925. It appears that the initiative for calling the congress in Budapest was taken following the discontinuance of financial assistance rendered the European anti-Semitic organizations by Henry Ford, the paper states.
The Congress was organized by the Austrian Consul General in Budapest, de Pottes, alias Olier. The call to the congress was issued under the slogan: “Liberate the enslaved nations of the world from the reign of international Judaism.”
An examination of the minutes of the anti-Semitic congress in Budapest discloses the fact that the delegates attending the congress disagreed on the methods of carrying out the proposed anti-Semitic program. The delegates from Hungary, Roumania and Austria demanded the adoption of the method of terror and pogroms against the Jews, while the delegates from Italy and Germany were opposed to such methods. The Congress decided to create a bureau of the anti-Semitic International, with headquarters in Vienna. The executive committee of the anti-Semitic International as elected by the congress, consists of Professor Alexander Cuza of Roumania, Theodor Fritsch of Germany, Mrs. Nesta H. Webster, of England, author of the anti-Semitic books “The Chevalier de Boufflers,” “The French Revolution,” “World Revolution” and “Secret Societies and Subversive Movements,” General Neschvolodoff of Russia and Deputy Franz Ulain of Hungary.
According to the plan of action adopted at the Congress, national dictatorships were to be declared in April, 1926, in Roumania. Hungary, Austria and Bavaria, with a specific anti-Jewish purpose. The bureau of the anti-Semitic International was also committed to a plan of creating special military units in the respective countries and arming the existing nationalist organizations.
The list of the delegates shows that among them were Abbe Duppreon of France, Senor Berigni of Italy, Theodor Fritsch of Germany, Professor Alexander Cuza of Roumania, Baron Schlager and Teufel of Austria.
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