M. Paul Grunebaum-Ballin, intimate collaborator of the late French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, who was dismissed from his post as president of section of the French Council of State on July 17. 1940, has been restored to his position as of that date and retired because of the age limit as of March 27, last year, with pension and the rank of honorary president, it was learned here today.
M. Ballin-Grunebaum was one of the first public officials to be dismissed from his post under the Vichy racial legislation. Special decrees restoring him to his position as of the date of his ouster and reinstating in their former posts in the Council of State a number of other victims of the Vichy racial laws have been issued by the Ministry of Justice under the recent ordinance on the reintegration of government officials penalized by Vichy discriminatory legislation.
M. Georges Caben-Salvader, who was removed as president of section of the French Council of State on Nov. 23, 1940, was restored to that position. M. Cahon-Salvador, an economic authority, served on Premier Edouard Herriot’s special economic council in 1932. M. Pierre Seligrann, a member of the Central Jewish Consistory of France and, under Vichy a member of the administration of the General Union of Jews of France (UGIF), was restored to his position of Councillor of State, from which he had been dismissed by Vichy on Nov. 23. 1940.
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