The authorities today began taking a census of Czech and foreign Jews, reportedly as a preliminary measure to introduction of a law curbing participation of Jews in the nation’s economic life. At the same time, Premier Joseph Tiso of Slovakia, in a statement to the press declared that the Jewish problem was one of the State’s foremost tasks and would be solved on a racial basis immediately after passage of land reform, school and electoral laws.
About $4,500 has been granted from the London Lord Mayor’s Fund for retraining of 150 Jewish students, who are formally still admitted to German high schools to complete their advanced studies but are unwilling to comply with orders forcing them to occupy “ghetto benches” in classrooms and other discriminatory regulations.
The Supreme Council of Jewish Communities has been reorganized, with Zionists and Czech Jews being represented on a 50-50 basis. Dr. Joseph Popper, president of the Union of Jewish Communities, who is an independent, has been named president.
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