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Sunday Laws to Be Relaxed by Hungary

July 8, 1935
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The relaxation of the Sunday Law in Hungary to enable the Jews there to keep their establishments open on Sundays, was promised today by Geza Bornemissza, Hungarian Minister of Trade, in a statement given to the press.

The promise was made because orthodox Jews do not keep their stores open on Saturdays and enforcement of the Sunday Law would actually mean that Jewish firms would have to suspend their business for two days.

“It will be of service also to the non-Jewish population if Jews are permitted to trade on Sunday,” the Minister of Trade declared.

The failure of the Nazi movement to gain ground in Hungary was admitted today in an announcement by the Hungarian Nazi organization, known as the Pfeil-kreuzler.

The announcement declares that the Nazi movement in Hungary will be reorganized and that new leaders will be appointed to develop greater activities.

In Jewish circles here it is believed that no matter how the Nazis reorganize their machinery in Hungary their activities will have no effect.

The publication of the first Hungarian-Hebrew dictionary is announced today in the new Jewish magazine “Beke” which started publication in Debrezin, Hungary.

The announcement states that Dr. Ernst Grosz and Dr. Moritz Mannheim, two Jewish teachers of

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