A drastic program to exclude the Jews from Hungary’s economic, political and social life was put forward today by the newly reorganized pro-Nazi Arrow-Gross Party, which expressed dissatisfaction with the Government’s anti-Jewish bill as not sufficiently extreme. The Arrow-Cross program calls for (1) proclamation of the Jews as a separate race, prohibition of mixed marriages and legal sanctions against sexual intercourse between Jews and non-Jews, (2) deprive of Jews’ political rights and elimination of Jews from the army, (3) economic measures to compel the Jews to leave “the Hungarian state of labor.
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