President and Mme. Juan Peron, guests of honor last night at a reception tendered by the Jewish pro-Peronist Organization Israelita Argentina, proclaimed their friendship to the Jewish people. The President and his wife were greeted with a lengthy ovation by some 3,000 persons representing Jewish communities and Jewish organizations from all parts of the country.
In the course of an hour-long speech President Peron declared: “Five years ago the Jews suspected me of partiality and ultra-nationalism, but I understood that the Jews who had suffered always and everywhere were sensitive and I proved during my administration that I was just toward them and toward everybody. Our doctrine is brotherhood, goodwill and dignity of the human being.” He added: ” In humility I say to the Jewish community that I fell I am among friends. You know our thoughts. We wish harmony and mutual tolerance.”
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