Leaflets declaring, “Read Gringoire and Hitler Will be Pleased” were pasted all over the walls on principal streets of Vichy during the night representing a reaction against the continual and violent anti-British and anti-Jewish campaign by the weekly Gringoire.
Other leaflets, signed “The Last Column,” accuse the columnist of Gringoire, Henri Beraud, who is especially violent in his anti-Jewish incitement, of receiving 10,000 francs per article from a German source.
Gringoire constantly publishes false information about the Jews. Thus the latest issue states that there were 1,400,000 Jews in France in 1930 and that another 400,000 German, Austrian and Czech Jews immigrated before the war. Actually the number of Jews in France never exceeded 350,000 and the total of German and Austrian Jews admitted to France, of whom one-third subsequently emigrated, never exceeded 50,000.
The weekly incessantly accuses the Jews of being “agents of British policy” in France.
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