The Information Service of the South African Government issued a statement here today criticizing “recent reports in some United States newspapers” which “incorrectly tried to imply a certain growing anti-Semitic feeling in the South African Government and the National Party “
Terming such reports “vicious implications” which it was “necessary to refute, ” the Bulletin asserted that “it has been made quite clear at various occasions that the South African Government “will never allow any such feeling to influence it in its decisions and deliberations.”
The Bulletin emphasized that South Africa, under the present National Party government: “was one of the first countries to recognize the State of Israel and that its then Prime Minister, Dr. D. F. Malan, was the first head of Government of any foreign country to visit Israel after that country achieved its independence. ” The publication cited a number of statements by South African leaders and newspapers denouncing anti-Semitism, as well as statements by Jewish leaders asserting that there was no anti-Semitism in South Africa.
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