While police patrolled streets in Jewish districts and threw guards around Jewish institutions, this city’s 10,000 Jews continued today in a state of acute uneasiness in fear of new anti-Semitic demonstration threatened by Mexican Fascist organizations.
Fears were stimulated by continued agitation in anti-Jewish newspapers, which charged that Jews were attacking Mexicans. The papers also demanded deportation of Jacob Glantz, poet and literary editor of the Jewish newspaper Der Weg, whose clash with a Mexican salesman allegedly precipitated Thursday night’s three-hour outbreak of violence.
Jewish circles were concerned, too, over the failure thus far of President Cardenas to grant an audience urgently requested by the Jewish Central Committee. The committee, meanwhile, was convened in permanent session.
An exodus of American tourists, who feared renewed violence might be directed against all foreigners, was under way today.
E1 Popular, organ of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers) editorially urged the authorities to take severe measures against the Fascists who, it charged, were attempting to convert Mexico into a new Nazi land. The anti-Semitic newspaper Excelsiar, which has long been inciting the masses against the Jews, demanded that excesses be discontinued. It urged that Jews legally in Mexico be respected but advised readers who knew of Jews illegally in the country to inform the authorities.
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