Led by Bernard Lecache, noted French-Jewish publicist and president of the International League to Combat Racialism, members of the French Committee for National Liberation have launched an aggressive campaign to combat racial propaganda in the French overseas empire and in German-occupied France.
The campaign has opened with publication of a periodical called “Cahiers Antiracistes” (Anti-Racial Journal) under the sponsorship of members of the French Committee and religious, political and social leaders of mixed affiliations. The first number of the publication contains a manifesto denouncing racialism as the “negator of intelligence, the gravedigger of morality and the most extraordinary intellectual, scientific and political fraud that ever saw the light of day.”
Bernard Lecache, is the editor of the Cahiers, the board includes the Archbishop of Tunis, Monseigneur Bedu, and a Moslem religious leader, Sheikh Halcksi. French Committee officials collaborating include Henri Bonnet, Information Commissioner; Deputy Andre Philip, Commissioner of State, and Rene Pleven, Colonial Commissioner.
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