A wave of anti-Semitic incitements has spread over various parts of Central America with leading newspapers in a number of major cities carrying violently anti-Jewish material, the Federation of Central American Jewish Communities warned here today.
According to the Federation, the popular newspaper El Imparcial in Guatemala, allegedly published by the vice-president of that republic, is carrying a serialized version of the notoriously anti-Semitic “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” along with additional anti-Jewish material. Other Guatemalan papers accuse the Jews along with the Chinese and Turks of seeking to “rob the land of Guatemalan peasants and enslaving their wives and children.”
In San Salvador, a Roman Catholic priest wrote an anti-Semitic article. In this case, however, he was reprimanded by the local archbishop. A large number of anti-Semitic pamphlets are circulated in San Salvador, with some of them describing Jews as “a cursed race” which came to the country to “use the blood and sweat” of the people.
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