A compromise has been reached between the Upper and Lower Houses on amendments made to the Government’s anti-Jewish bill in the Senate, which at first were rejected by the Chamber of Deputies. The compromise proposals were approved by a joint committee of the two houses by a vote of 149 to 59. They provide:
1– Individual Jews may obtain exemption from the operation of the bill when a special body instituted for this purpose finds that such exemption is in the nation’s interests.
2– The definition of “Jew” will not include persons baptized before Aug. 1, 1919, whose parents were born in Hungary prior to 1849, nor persons born Christians whose parents were baptized before Jan. 1, 1919. Such persons, however, are subject to many restrictions, being banned as notaries public, court officials, patent agents, editors, leading journalists and executives of workers’ organizations and subject to proportionate restrictions in universities and restrictions regarding agricultural and industrial properties.
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