Australian Jewish leaders expressed concern today about the appearance on public buildings of pro-Nazi stickers. The stickers bear the phrase: “Hitler was right” and a four-inch swastika. Some have been pasted on the gates and walls of the Great Synagogue in Sydney, prompting Rabbi Israel Porush to comment that “such incidents warrant suspicions that there is more to this than is visible.”
The stickers began appearing in Sydney following Prime Minister Menzies’ denial last week, in the Federal Parliament in Canberra, that there was any significant Nazi activity in Australia. Security police in Sydney have been checking reports that 5,000 of the stickers have been imported.
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