With high Government officials and representatives of Popular Front parties in attendance, the French League Against Anti-Semitism opened its seventh national congress here yesterday.
Bernard M. Lecache, president, opened the congress with a tribute to Roger Salengro, Minister of the Interior, who committed suicide last week, declaring he was the victim of the same forces which operate both against Jews and against freedom.
Four hundred delegates from all parts of France are attending the parley.
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