The world Jewish congress executive protested to the league of Nations today against decision of the Nazi-dominated Danzig senate to bar Jewish physicians and patients from hospitals beginning April 1.
In telegrams to the french, British and Swedish foreign Ministers, and to the league secretary-general and high commissioner for Danzig, the congress demanded intervention by the league’s committee of three on Danzig to safeguard the free city’s constitution. The telegrams asserted that private physicians were also refusing to treat Jewish patients.
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