Lewis’s, Ltd., important chain of provincial department stores, today announced withdrawal of its buyers from Germany and Austria in line with a decision no longer to deal in German goods.
Announcing the decision of his company, which operates stores in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds, Sir Frederick Marquis, managing director, declared:
“I will scour the markets of the world before contributing to the economic well-being of a country content to have a man at its head who cruelly persecutes one of the oldest races of the world. We will find new goods and sell them with a free conscience to the free people of this country.”
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