More than 100 delegates representing Jewish communities in eleven Latin American countries will assemble here on July 4 for a five-day parley to study a revival of anti-Semitic activities in the southern hemisphere and other common problems. The conference, which will be held under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress, will hear a report from Dr. Israel Goldstein, chairman of the western hemisphere executive of the WJC on world Jewish questions.
Of immediate concern to the conference will be deluge of anti-Jewish material, in English and Spanish, mailed to individuals and organizations in the Argentine, Chile and Uruguay, from the United States. The tracts bear the name of one Horace Sherman Miller and the address is a Waco, Texas, post office box.
The Miller tracts assail the Jews, hold them responsible for integration in the Southern states of the United States and warn that the Ku Klux Klan will arrive in South America “to fight against the traitors to the white race.”
(In New York, the American Jewish Congress disclosed that it had forwarded copies of the Miller tracts to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and had been advised by J. Edgar Hoover, FBI chief, that he was in touch with the State Department on the matter.)
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