A new electoral law just adopted by the Czechoslovak parliament limits the franchise to citizens of “Slavonic nationality,” thus, in principle at least, depriving those who previously claimed Jewish nationality of the right to vote.
In practice, however, since the Government no longer recognizes a Jewish minority, the Jews will have the right to vote as citizens of Czechoslovakia. Jewish leaders are understood to be making an effort, however, to restore the franchise to Jews as such.
(A report from Prague received in Jerusalem says that 84 Czech Jews who returned to Czechoslovakia from Palestine last November, were robbed by a band of Stusso-German deserters near the Czech-Austrian frontier, and stripped of their clothes and money. The robbery was reported in a letter from one of the repatriates to his son in Palestine.)
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