Reports reaching here today from the Nazi-dominated Balkan countries indicate intensification of the drive to purge Jews from the economy of these nations.
Premier von Kallay of Hungary, addressing a group of peasants in the trans-Danubian area seized from Yugoslavia, promised them that under the recently adopted anti-Semitic land laws large tracts of land would be “restored” to the peasants.
In Bulgaria, the Ministry of the Interior has decreed that all land purchased by Jews from local communities, but not yet officially registered as the property of the Jews, must be returned to the communities, without the purchasers receiving any compensation.
The Rumanian Government has issued a new series of decrees which bar an additional 1,327 Jewish workers from continuing in their trades.
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