Nazi Anti-jewish Curbs Apply to U.S. Citizens

German authorities will make no exceptions in the case of American Jews in application of the new law defining the status and regulating the activities of all “non-Aryans” in occupied France, according to a Nazi official quoted in a Paris dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune today.

The American Embassy at Paris does not contemplate any representations to the German Government on behalf of nationals affected by the law, which goes into full effect by the end of this month. Paris Embassy officials have no precise data regarding the number of Americans in France who are Jews, the dispatch said.

The valuable library of the Alliance Israelite in Paris was seized and sent to Germany by the Gestapo in one of the first of the wholesale book raids now being carried. out by the Nazis in occupied France, according to a Washington dispatch by Edgar Ansel Mowrer published in the New York Post today. The Nazi “cultural purge,” designed to suppress free French culture and substitute what passes for culture in the Third Reich, has been extended to the residences of Cardinal Suhard, Archbishop of Paris, and other prominent Catholic clerics, the correspondent said.