(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Jugoslav Prime Minister, Vukicevic, at a press conference denounced the attempts of the Jugoslav peasant leader Radec to raise an anti-Semitic issue in connection with the agitation over the Jugoslav Government’s efforts to secure a foreign loan.
“Radec will soon recognize the un-wisdom of his action,” the Prime Minister stated. “Besides, Jugoslavian Jews are strong enough to repudiate any unfounded attack upon them.”
In the meantime, Radec is continuing his anti-Semitic campaign. In pamphlets and addresses he charges that the Jews are not a state building element but mere money makers. Simultaneously, rumors have been set afloat aiming to discredit the Roths-schild bank and to make the projected foreign loan unpopular. In a statement issued by the president of the Jugoslav state bank, Marinovic, he declares that the reputation of the Rothschild bank has been impregnable for the past hundred years and no one has ever doubted its stability and integrity.
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