Jacqueline Dugas, president of the executive of the Jean Baptiste Society’s branch in Notre Dame de Grace, a Montreal west end suburb, resigned Tuesday from the nationalist society in protest against an article in the February issue of “Ici Quebec” magazine which called Zionism “the cancer of humanity.”
Mrs. Dugas, a nurse at the Jewish General Hospital here, said that Jean Marie Cossette, recently elected president of the society’s Montreal chapter who is the director of the magazine, has refused to dissociate himself from the views expressed in the article. Mrs. Dugas said she was drowned out by shouts during the society’s convention last weekend when she called on Cassette to criticize the article. She asked again after the crowd was brought to order but Cassette refused, Mrs. Dugas said.
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