A decree putting into effect the provisions of the second Jewish law concerning agrarian reform has been published in the Official Gazette. The decree affects a total area of about 490,000 acres which may have to pass into new hands under the law.
Persons defined as Jews by this law are obliged to submit to the authorities any data required for carrying out the transfer of rural property. According to the decree, any landed property except forests, urban property, plots in villages on which houses are built and plots of land used for manufacturing, mining or bathing purposes, is to be classified as agricultural property. In order to save farmers and peasants the trouble of procuring at considerable cost documents proving their “Aryan” origin, the decree limits the obligation to submitting such proof to those whose origin is considered as doubtful.
The figure of 490,000 acres does not include Jewish possessions in districts formerly belonging to Carpatho-Russia or Slovakia.
Apparently in order to spur anti-Jewish feeling the first issue of the Arrow-Cross weekly, “The Path of Hungarism,” which was just published after a month’s suspension, puts Jewish agricultural property in Hungary at more than 600,000 acres.
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