Decree Forcing Jews to Don Mogen Davids Expected in Norway; Propaganda Increasing

A decree ordering all Jews in Norway to don yellow Mogen David badges is expected soon as a result of the appointment this week of M. Fugelsand, liaison officer between the German occupation authorities and the Quisling party, as chief of all anti-Jewish activities in the country, it is reported here today by the Dagens Nyheter, a Swedish newspaper.

Since the appointment of Fugelsand, who is Chief of the Norwegian State Secretariat, anti-Jewish propaganda in Norway has become increasingly severe, the Stockholm paper writes. It is understood that far-reaching laws aimed at Jews are being prepared, the paper adds.

Intensification of anti-Jewish activities in Norway is similarly reported today by the Svenska Dagbladet. Discussing Norwegian reaction to the anti-Semitic drive, the Dagbladet writes: “One can easily imagine the reaction of Norwegian patriots to the labored anti-Jewish propaganda, as the Jewish problem hardly existed in Norway.”

NAZI PRESS IN DENMARK WARNED TO CEASE DRIVE FOR ANTI-JEWISH LAWS

A warning to the Danish Nasi press, addressed especially to the Nordschles-wigsche Zeitung, organ of the German minority in Denmark, to cease its “useless incitement” aimed at securing the introduction of the anti-Jewish laws in the country, is published in the Danish paper Fredrickshaven Avis, reaching here today.

Assailing the rumors concerning the imposition of the Nuremberg laws on Danish Jews, the newspaper reminds the Nazis that Denmark adopted German children during the last war “not because of a preference for Germans.” “We have no special preference for Jews, but we wish them to have the same human rights enjoyed by other people because the tradition of equal justice is deeply rooted in the Danish mind,” the paper says.