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Canada Issues Permanent Ban Against Alabama Anti-semitic Mail

March 12, 1965
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An order banning the use of the Canadian mails to the National States Rights Party of Alabama, because of the group’s activities in distributing anti-Semitic and anti-Negro materials, was made permanent today after a three-man board of review ruled that the original temporary ban issued last September, was a “public necessity.”

The ruling, which was issued after an appeal by party representatives in Canada, found that the materials circulated by the group was “grossly offensive” and “abusive to both the Negro and Jewish people in our population.” The board suggested that, under British law, the hate material would be considered seditious libel. The members of the board who issued the ruling were Ontario Supreme Court Justice Dalton Wells, Associate Deputy Justice Minister Rodrique Bedard, and Douglas McIntyre, an Ottawa attorney.

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