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Hungarian, Literary Society Refuses to Expel Jewish Members

February 7, 1943
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Hungarian newspapers reaching here today from Budapest report that the leading Hungarian literary society, Petofi, went on record as refusing to expel its Jewish members in spite of strong pressure by anti-Jewish elements.

As a result of this policy, Jozef Erdelyi, famous Hungarian poet, resigned from the society making public a letter which reads: “I have been induced to resign from the society as a result of the fact that it does not take seriously my suggestions, especially those concerning the elimination of Jewish members. The chairman went so far as to term my proposals ‘childish.'”

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