Mrs. Norma Kennedy, a Peronist activist accused by the DAIA of incitement to pogroms and criminal violence against Jews, has denied that remarks she made a week ago at a public meeting of a Peronist women’s organization were aimed against Jews. Mrs. Kennedy was quoted as implying that Jewish shopkeepers were responsible for the shortage of sugar and other items and for the high prices which are, in fact, the result of inflation and the latest currency devaluation. Mrs. Kennedy and Dr. Nehemias Resnizky, president of the DAIA, issued a joint statement this week which said of her remarks that, “At no time had she the least intention of alluding to and even less to offend the Argentine Jewish community or any other community living in this country.”
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