South African Jews are “astonished by the gross exaggerations” appearing in the American press, regarding the alleged situation of the Jews in this country, The South African Jewish Times, leading weekly here, declared today.
The paper quoted reports that appeared in the United States, stating that the Jews here were “shuddering in fear, ” contemplating abandonment of their property and planning emigration, due to anti-Jewish attacks voiced recently in South Africa’s Parliament by some members of the Nationalist Party. Such reports and “similar nonsense,” stated the newspaper, “have no foundation in fact.”
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