A Vichy dispatch to the New York Times today quoted travelers from Belgium as stating that, despite forced liquidation of Jewish businesses and compulsory opening of safety-deposit boxes and other “vexatious measures,” anti-Jewish discrimination in that country “has not yet conformed entirely with German wishes.”
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