The District Executive of the Czech National Unity Party in Budweiss has issued new instructions to members, ”in the interest of cooperation with the German people,” it was reported today from Prague.
Members of the party are instructed that: (1) No”Aryan” citizens under 45 year of age should be employed by citizens of the ”Protectorate” of the Jewish race; (2) all Czech political and non-political organizations, sport, cultural and commercial unions should immediately exclude all Jews form their membership as will as form all leading organs; (3) social intercourse between members of the Czech people and Jews, both in public and private life, is ”undesirable” and ”compromising.”
Members are given notice that this order will be carried out before Aug. 16, after which date violation will be regarded as a breach of party discipline.
The Czech ”Aryan” Cultural Union has submitted to the ”Protectorate” Government a proposal to create a special ministry for ”Aryanization” in order to centralize the ”Aryanization” activities now in the hands of various ministries.
It was reported form Bratislava that the Slovak Government has issued a statement announcing that ”Slovak authorities arrested 33 Hungarian and Jewish members of a secret semi military anti-State organization…During the searches leaflets in Hebrew, among others, were discovered, testifying to the existence of a spy service against the Slovak State.” The statement was regarded as an invention designed to spread anti-Semitism among the Slovakians.
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