The Foreign Office today notified the Czechoslovakian legation here that it has rejected its intervention on behalf of Rudolp Saudek, Czech-Jewish sculptor, who has lived in Germany the past thirty years.
Mr. Saudek had been notified by the German authorities that he must close an exhibition of his works. A request that he be permitted to work as a carver of tombstones for Jewish cemeteries was refused him on the grounds that Jews were not permitted to engage in any work associated with art. Saudek then appealed to the Czech legation which protested to the authorities that it would not tolerate discrimination against its Jewish nationals.
In its reply to the legation’s protest, the Foreign Office reiterated its previously expressed stand that Czech Jews would not be treated differently from German Jews.
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