World Jewish Congress Leader Asks Austrian Govt. to Ban Anti-semitic-newspapers

The Austrian Government was urged today to “take all necessary steps under the Austrian constitution and laws” to ban “from circulation publications devoted to the spreading of racial and religious hatred,” by Dr. Robert S. Marcus, political director of the World Jewish Congress.

In a letter to Dr. Ludwig von Kleinwachter, Austrian Minister to the United States, Dr. Marcus called attention to two anti-Semitic publications, Die Neue Front, published in Salzburg, and Alpenrose, published in Graz. Pointing cut that “anti-Semitism was utilized to foment unrest and to destroy the fabric of the Austrian state” in the past, Dr. Marcus letter expressed the concern of the World Jewish Congress with the reappearance of anti-Semitism in the Austrian press.”