The prohibition by the police in Slovakia of the antisemtic symbol, the swastika, a hooked cross, as being the symbol of violence, created a dangerous situation for a time in the villages of Slovakia, says a report from Bratislava received here, the peasants being under the belief that the Cross had been prohibited, and that this was an anti-Christian machination of the Jews. There was some fear of an anti-Jewish outbreak, but the authorities took the situation in hand, explaining the real significance of the swastika to the peasants, and finally succeeded in pacifying them.
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