A representative of 53 large American importing concerns is studying the attitude of the press here toward the Jews with the intention of placing orders in Czechoslovakia only if anti-Semitic measures are not adopted, Narodny Osvobozeni, war veterans’ organ, reported today. Czechoslovakia faces losing her third best market, the United States, if Prague emulates other European nations’ solutions of the Jewish question, the paper warned, adding that Czech trade was also threatened in other Anglo-Saxon countries and in South America.
The Jewish problem in Slovakia will be solved against Prague’s wishes immediately after the constitution of the first autonomous Slovak Diet, according to a declaration by Slovak Minister of Justice Milos Vanco in Bratislava published by the German minority paper, Bruenner Tagessote. “We do not know of Slovak Jews, but only of Jews and again Jews,” the Minister was quoted as saying. “There will not be a numerous clausus but a numberus nullus in the professions, although a gradual solution will be provided.”
Meanwhile, increasing despair among Jewish refugees from Sudetenland was illustrated by the suicide of an 86-year-old woman by leaping from a window.
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