A libel action against the former editor of the Iron Broom, organ of the anti-Semitic National Front, arising from the famous trial in which the so-called Protocols of the Elders of Zion were proved spurious, was settled amicably today.
The action, pending since June 21, 1933, had been brought by three well-known Jewish leaders, Dreyfus Brodsky, president of the Basle Jewish Community, Dr. Marcus Cohn, president of the Swiss Zionist Federation, and Dr. Marcus Ehrenpreis, Chief Rabbi of Stockholm.
Dr. Zander, the defendant, agreed to withdraw assertions published in his paper alleging that Dr. Ehrenpreis had called the Protocols genuine.
He admitted the Protocols had no connection with the first World Zionist Congress here in 1897.
Some 780 copies of the spurious document, imported by the Basle National Front from Germany, will be destroyed, Dr. Zander Promised. Costs of the action will be paid by Dr. Zander.
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