(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Greater unity and homogeneity in the ranks of French Jewry are expected to result from the new French naturalization law which became effective yesterday.
According to the provisions of the new law, wide facilities are granted for the acquisition of French citizenship. Instead of the ten years residence prior to naturalization required by the former law, applicants need only show evidence of three years residence in the country. In special cases citizenship will be granted after one years residence.
It is expected that the majority of the considerable immigrant Jewish population in France will become citizens of the Republic. It is also expected that this new measure will tend to abolish the division existing between French and foreign Jews. Under the statutes of the kehillahs, educational and philanthropic Jewish organizations are open only to French Jews. For this reason the Russian Jewish group in Paris was recently compelled to form a separate Kehillah.
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