An order has been issued limiting to 20 per cent the number of Jews who may bid for Government contracts for construction work and supplies. The order followed a decree revoking licenses to sell tobacco of hundreds of Jews, retroactive to May 1. The latter decree came as a surprise since the “Jewish law” of May, 1939, specifies that liquidation of Jewish licenses for sale of tobacco and other monopoly products is to be carried out over a two-year period.
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