A 20-year-old Jewish tailor from the East End sec## Jack Mverovitch, received a three-week prison term and was fined $16 over the ##nd for assaulting a policeman at a recent fascist meeting. In pronouncing ##e, Magistrate Geoffrey Raphael urged the Jews to refrain from retaliating ##t the “loathsome behavior of those who conduct fascist meetings and come into ### areas solely to provoke” disturbances.
Mverovitch was released on bail pending the filling of an appeal. The de##t is a war veteran who lost all his relatives in the Nazi death camps. He ##he court that he was beaten by the police after he was arrested.
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