The Belgian Government has promised to take into consideration a protest against its Ministry of Overseas Trade circulating among diamond dealers a Saudi Arabian statement to the effect that all diamonds sold to the Arab country would have to be accompanied by a certificate that the seller was not a Jew.
This pledge was made by the Minister for Overseas Trade after M. Marinower, a member of the World Jewish Congress executive, had formally protested circularization of the Saudi Arabi….n statement by the Ministry. When the matter was brought to the attention of A. Retti, president of the Belgian Diamond Dealers Federation, he immediately sent a letter of protest to the Ministry, swelling the already large chorus of protests.
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