Jews are beginning to participate in the municipal governments in North Africa for the first time since the collapse of France, according to information reaching here today. The municipal committee of Casablanca recently met with Jewish, Moslem and French members in attendance. The Pasha of Casablanca presided.
Speaking today at a meeting of the Federation of Czechosloaakian Jews, Jacques Soustelle, Fighting French National Commissioner for Information, declared that “wherever De Gaulle went, freedom for the Jews followed.” He urged Jews in North Africa to be patient “because the moment is near.”
(A more pessimistic view of the situation of the Jews in North Africa especially Morocco – is given in a dispatch from Algiers appearing in the New York Times today. Reporting what he found in Morocco, the Times correspondent writes that, “German anti-Semitism, strongly inouteated in the French and Arab population after the armistice, remains definitely widespread. Jews still…have a difficult time obtaining such jobs as have theoretically been opened to them by the latest deorees, and, by and large, whenever there are insufficient rations available in any district, they are forced to do without.”)
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