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A Demonstration in South Africa

November 14, 1934
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The Jewish Chronicle of South Africa reports about the following demonstration by the Jews in Capetown against the Nazis there:

A public demonstration against the nature of the propaganda published by the Grey Shirts was made in Capetown on Friday afternoon last, when three prominent Capetown citizens, Adv. M. S. Comay, Dr. J. L. Gordon and Councillor A. Z. Berman, destroyed, in the presence of a policeman an offensive Grey Shirt poster.

The poster was carried by a newsboy selling the Grey Shirt organ “The Truth,” and contained the words: “Ka#rs and Jews indecently assault white girls.” The men concerned called upon the policeman to stand by and then took the offending poster and copies of the newspaper from the newsboy and tore both poster and paper to pieces. They then gave the policeman their names and addresses and expressed a wish to be prosecuted as a protest against the offensive nature of the poster.

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