The widely-read French weekly, Marianne, has been suspended for three months for publishing an article by Bernard Lecache, former president of the French League to Combat Anti-Semitism, urging tolerance towards foreigners, according to a communique issued today in Clermont-Ferrand.
The communique said: “Lecache is a militant Jew whose previous activity has been sufficiently harmful to France for him to be placed where he cannot harm our country.”
The article, captioned “Rien N’Est Fini” (“Nothing Is Finished”) proclaimed the love for France of the foreigners who had found refuge in this country.
Lecache is at present living in Algeria where he has sought, without success, to obtain authorization to reestablish the newspaper Droit de Vivre, organ of the League to Combat Anti-Semitism.
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