The first application of the Italian racial laws in Palestine was revealed here today with the dismissal of Arthur Hochdorf, who for six years had been Palestine manager of the Adriatica Steamship Line. Hochdorf had yearly promoted tours in which an estimated 40,000 Palestine Jews visited Italy.
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