The abolition of anti-Jewish laws in Rumania is not sufficient, the London Times says today in an editorial urging that the Jews be compensated for the damages which they have suffered.
“It is to be hoped that restitution in general will be made to this unhappy community which suffered cruelly from the hands of the Gestapo and of the ferocious Iron Guard,” the article says commenting on the terms of armistice with Rumania which provide for the immediate annulment of the anti-Jewish legislation.
The Agudas Israel organization was informed today that the Spanish Government has instructed its diplomatic representatives in Germy and in German-occupied territories to prevent the transportation of Jews holding Latin American passports to internment camps to which the International Red Cross has no access. The Agudah supplied the Spanish Embassy in London with a list of all such Jews who had been deported by the Germans from the French city of Vittel since April.
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