German secret police today arrested approximately forty members of B’nai B’rith in early morning raids on the homes of many members, the Associated Press reported from Berlin. Officials refused to give any reason for the raids.
Simultaneously, the A.P. said, Jewish organizations succeeded in having a recently-effected sixty-day ban on Jewish meetings raised for language courses, athletic training and performances of the Jewish Culture League approved by the Nazi special commissioner.
The ban continued for meetings of the Central Jewish Association, as well as for lectures and assemblies of laymen’s religious societies.
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