Heavily reinforced police detachments are guarding the Salonica Jewish quarter, fearing an attack by anti-Semites.
The anti-Semitic political group in Greece has split into two sections, each endeavoring to outdo the other in anti-Semitic raids.
At the same time partisans of both groups are threatening to disclose the names of anti-Semites who were in part responsible for the pogroms of 1931.
Fardis, notorious anti-Semite who was accused of being the chief instigator of the 1931 pogrom, but who was later released for lack of evidence, offered one of the Salonica Jewish newspapers the names of the guilty who participated in the pogrom. He asked payment of 1,000 drachmas for his information.
The Greek municipality of Solina has drastically reduced its annual grant to a Jewish charity organization there. This year the Jewish charities were given 300,000 drachmas instead of 650,000 drachmas granted last year.
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