What amounts to a proportionate restriction of Jews in the law profession will be introduced by a law on admission of new lawyers to be published to morrow. The regulations provide that no new lawyers will be admitted if the livelihood of the present attorneys is endangered. It is learned that application of the law will exclude Jewish candidates for the bar as long as the Jewish quota is exceeded.
Moreover, the law expressly stipulates that lawyers not belonging to the Czech, Slovak and Carpatho-Russian nationalities are to be admitted as members of the executive bodies and disciplinary councils of bar associations only in proportion to the percentage of their nationalities in the total population. Lawyers from territories occupied by foreign powers are excluded from membership.
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