Summer Welles, former Under-Secretary of State, today branded as an “outrageous falsification” a story appearing in the newspaper “El Panama America,” in Panama City, which quoted him as having stated that the natural resources of Latin-America must be freed from the control of “foreign Jews.”
In a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Mr. Welles disclosed that as a result of a protest lodged with the publisher of the paper, a retraction was published, which explained that the report of his speech had been deliberately falsified by inserting the reference to Jews in the text as received from the United Press.
Behind the falsification, apparently, are anti-democratic Panamian elements who are spreading anti-foreign and anti-Jewish propaganda as part of their campaign for election to the body which will adopt a new constitution for Panama.
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