Lieut-Colonel Charles Waley Cohen, representative of the British Central Chamber of Agriculture at the World Wheat Fair in Regina, has sailed for home on the Empress of Britain. Col. Cohen, a West Sussex farmer on a grand scale, is known as an agricultural expert.
News accounts of the Hitlerite swastika flag being raised in Toronto much disturbed this well-known communal worker who said, “I was horrified to read this and my view is that if these young people only knew what horror the swastika flag is associated with, they would burn it everytime they saw one. After all Canada’s great contribution to the world is that it has shown how people of varying races and religions can live together amicably. The Germans cannot even stand a difference of religion,” he added.
The Jewish exhibits of agricultural achievements in Canada, Palestine, Soviet Russia and other countries drew much attention at the Regina fair.
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