Accusations in the French anti-Semitic press that Alexander STavitsky, the swindle who committed suicide after being involved in a huge fraud ring, was a Jew, have been refuted by the important French weekly “Je suipartout.”
The French paper revealed that Darious, publisher of hte Boredeau newspaper Midi, sold to the Nazi forged bonds given him by Stavisky which the Nazis knew to be fraudulen but accepted in order to control the paper. Darious, according to “Je Sues partout”, submitted himself directly to the control of Berlin, at tacking the German refugees is French on direct orders from Berlin.
At the same time it was revaale thta Stavisky was nen-Jewish an that both his parents and grandpartmental in converting his mother the Catholocism from the Greek Orthe dox faith, which the French press mistook for concersion from Judaism. There was some agitatic aganst the Jews, but it was confine in the main to insignificant anti-Semitic sheets.
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