Acting apparently under instructions from the Hungarian authorities, the Jewish Community in Budapest distributed a letter among its members asking them “not to give any opportunity for criticism of your appearance and behaviour.” The text of the letter which reached here today reads:
“We ask our Jewish coreligionists in a most emphatic manner to see to it that our behaviour and attitude is worthy of these serious times when our position demands from us the greatest sacrifices. Let us be modest, disciplined, unimpertinent. Let us not occupy places of amusement, recreation, or on the beach. Let us not furnish any opportunity for criticism of our appearance and behaviour. In times like these, our duty lies in maintaining serious, modest and disciplined behaviour.”
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