The Lodz town council nominated by the Polish government today annulled the ruling by the dissolved anti-Semitic council providing that the city prize for literature could be awarded only to an “Aryan”.
The Polish government dissolved the city council controlled by an anti-Semitic bloc of National Radicals and Germans after it had introduced the “Aryan paragraph” in the awarding of the prize. At that time, the acting president of the council had declared the council’s decision unconstitutional. A new council was nominated by the government in which the anti-Semites were prevented from having a majority.
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