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Emmanuel Debono, « Ligue internationale contre l'antisémitisme et franc-maçonnerie : Le rendez-vous manqué des années 1930 », Archives Juives, ID : 10670/1.5qotl0
The International League against Anti-Semitism and Freemasonry: a missed opportunity for an alliance during the 1930sIn 1933, the International League against Anti-Semitism started a propaganda war against Nazi Germany, becoming the leading anti-Hitler organization of France. During the entire decade it worked on building alliances with other democratic forces in the country. The League thus attempted to broaden its rank and file in order to constitute a much larger front against racism. In the eyes of its nationalist detractors, the League was viewed as the archetype of a Jewish-Masonic enterprise conspiring to break up France and its empire. However, despite the fact that some of the League’s leaders were Freemasons, the relations between the League and Freemasonry was very limited. Furthermore it was only in 1939 that a specifically anti-racist Lodge was finally created: the Abbé Grégoire lodge. In spite of shared values, the League and Freemasonry missed a unique opportunity to create closer ties during this period.