The province of Quebec, which has in the last few years been the hotbed of strong anti-Semitic agitation, is also the first province in the Dominion to give birth to a Fascist movement and to a Friends of Hitler Organization.
Since the death of the anti-Semitic Goglu publications, their scurrilous campaign has been taken over by Le Patriot, Le Devoir, and other similar newspapers. Fascism is being spread by the “Federation of Labor Clubs” and the cause of Hitlerism will be championed by the “Auslandische Freunde der Hitler Bewegung, Incorporated”, which has opened temporary headquarters in 57 St James Street. This organization has proclaimed itself in favor of all principles enunciated by the Brown Shirt Chancellor, including Hitler’s famous utterances to the effect that Jewish rights should be proportionate to their numerical strength.
The Hitlerist organization claims for itself a membership of 298 and has already petitioned the government for a charter. According to its organizer, or “Orst Leiter”, Gilles Mousseau, an advocate and former student of universities in Berlin and Dresden, the present group, now that it is officially under way, will shortly touch the 10,000 mark, and most of its members will be recruited from English- and French-speaking native Canadians.
The “Bewegung”, according to its “Orst Leiter”, will have as its main activities educational and propaganda work. It is acting under instructions from Hans Nieland, of Hamburg, and is authorized to work in close cooperation with similar organizations in the United States. It will soon receive the blessing of Hans Wiedemann, official delegate of the German government to the Chicago exhibition, who is scheduled to visit Montreal shortly.
Some of the local French-Canadian publications have, meanwhile, raised a hue and cry against the admission of German-Jewish refugees into the Dominion. Recently Le Devoir featured on its front page that a Jewish committee has been formed in Paris to raise a fund of 10 million pounds for the transportation of thousands of German Jews to Canada. The cry has been picked up by Le Canada which, although always friendly to Jews, editorially remark-
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