Postmaster General Jean Pierre Cote told the House of Commons that he would forbid an organization in Montreal from using the mails to distribute anti-Jewish materials. The organization, L’Alerte del’Occident, recently resumed distribution of an expanded 64-page brochure, “La Cle du Mystere.” containing a variety of anti-Jewish libels.
Three national Canadian organizations announced opposition to the dissemination of hate propaganda and asked for federal action to ban such distribution.
The Ontario Association of Mayors and Reeves accepted a motion from the city of London. Ontario, urging the federal government to enact such a law. The action was taken at the association’s conference. The National Council of Women of Canada decided to examine and discuss a bill against such distribution now before a joint committee of the Commons and Senate. The Council wishes to present its views to the joint committee.
The Ontario Command of the Canadian Legion adopted unanimously a resolution asking the federal government and all provincial and municipal governments in Canada “to act in concert to declare the activities of the Canadian National Socialist Party as seditious and that the continued existence of the party be forbidden and that dissemination of its scurrilous and treasonable utterances and publications be banned.”
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