Between 30,000 and 40,000 Jews will be deprived of their livelihood on January 1, it was learned today, as a result of drastic instructions unostentatiously issued on Christmas Eve in the form of an administrative order to the police by Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick.
The order instructs the police not to renew the permits of Jewish traveling salesmen for the coming year. Without these permits, salesmen are not allowed to solicit orders in any district other than that in which the firm by which they are employed is located.
The order was issued on the grounds that “Jews are no longer politically reliable.” It charges that Jewish drummers are a grave danger for the Reich since they constitute an element which is likely to spread atrocity stories.
So grave are the consequences of the order that Jewish leaders today, despite the fact that it is Christmas, appealed directly to Reich Minister of Economics Dr. Hjalmar Schacht for immediate action.
Dr. Schacht, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency is informed, is prepared to act promptly against this unwarranted molestation of Jews in the field of commerce. Although there has long been the threat of anti-Jewish regulation in commerce, no legislation in that province has yet been passed.
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