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Anti-jewish Incidents in Mexico Result of Economic Depression: No Physical Harm Done to Jews: Americ

May 19, 1931
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The report received from the American Ambassador in Mexico by the U.S. State Department in response to its instructions that he should investigate the anti-Jewish occurrences there is to the effect that the anti-Jewish incidents in Mexico are the result of economic depression, and that no physical harm has been done to the Jews, the President of the B’nai B’rith, Mr. Alfred A. Cohen, who asked the U.S. State Department to look into the matter, and was handed a copy of the reply, has told the J.T.A.

The B’nai B’rith has sent a special representative to Mexico to investigate the Jewish situation there.

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