Newspapers today attacked a speech delivered at last night’s session of the Paris municipal Council by D’Arquier de Pellepoix during a discussion of aliens’ rights in France. Editorials called the anti-Semitic councilman “the Hitler of France.” De Pellepoix’s speech contained anti-Semitic assertions unprecedented in the council’s history. Urging that Jews be sent back to the ghetto and to the orient, he concluded a long oration by declaring that he completely agreed with Chancellor Hitler’s policy on the Jews. Further anti-Semitic utterances are expected when the debate is resumed on Monday.
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