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Frick Threatens Franchise Loss

January 14, 1935
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the government is now considering enforcement of the party program relative to Jews, created much excitement in Jewish circles. The Juedische Runschau, official organ of the German Zionist Federation, commenting editorially, declared:

“Dr. Frick’s utterances indicate that as yet no decision has been arrived at concerning the division of citizens reserving the franchise exclusively for nationals from which the so-called alien members of the Reich are excluded.

“We Jews are aware that the decision does not depend on us. We are unwilling to bear also the odium formally of a lower status to which we have been hitherto exposed only by the practical governing conception of the state, which was not stipulated in constitutional law.”

The paper expresses adherence to the view prevalent in some circles in Germany that the return of the Saar may result in a new chapter in the policy of the government and, also, in its stand on internal affairs. Such predictions, however, as have been often proven in the past, have been fathered only by the wishes of the Jews.

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