As a Christian, reasonable and humanitarian country France should not harbor racial struggles against the Jews, Henri, Count of Paris, who aspires to become King of France, said today in his newspaper, Le Courrier Royal. There is no justification for speaking of a Jewish peril in France, he declared, because this country established a solid national unity before the French revolution, and earlier than other countries.
The young pretender said in particular that no question should be raised concerning the citizenship of Jews, who obtained full rights during the 19th century and fought as soldiers and officers in France’s wars. These Jews, he declared, “mixed their blood with that of French peasants, workers and bourgeois. They are French, and to wish to exclude them from the national community or even to refuse them their full status as French citizens is to wish to weaken the country which they have served and should again serve.”
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