South African furs valued at $250,000 purchased recently at the Leipzig Fair will be withheld from sale, according to a communication received from the Hudson’s Bay Company, London, by the Fur Trade Boycott Committee of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League.
The British Company’s action followed their receipt of a letter from Samuel Untermyer, president of the league, through the Fur Trade Boycott Committee in which he declared the sale of the furs would be in violation of the anti-Nazi boycott. Purchased at the last Leipzig Fair in Nazi Germany by three American firms through their London agents, the furs were never shipped to America because of the boycott against all Nazi goods.
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