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Chile Deports Anti-semitic Agitator

May 17, 1939
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Hans Boigt Schmidt, chief of the German State Railways propaganda bureau in Chile, who was found by police to have ordered the printing of 100,000 anti-Semitic leaflets, has been deported by the police authorities on the grounds that his activities menaced the country’s tranquillity.

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