Dr. Jacob Kaplan, the Grand Rabbi of France, said today that he had never received either a letter or visit from Pierre Poujade. French rightist leader, who asserted recently that he had answered to Rabbi Kaplan on charges that the Poujadist movement was anti-Semitic.
“In any case,” Rabbi Kaplan declared, “more than any letter or eventual private conversation, it is to the words and acts of the directors of a movement that one must refer in order to be able to say whether such movement is of anti-Semitic tendency.”
Critics of the Poujadist movement assert that a large majority of the movement’s candidates in the recent French national elections were former fascists.
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