The drive to eliminate Jews from the country’s foreign trade field, under the cloak of nationalization, is arousing great embitterment among Jewish merchants throughout Poland.
The Council for Foreign Trade, which regulates Polish imports, has officially introduced a division of importing firms into Jewish and non-Jewish, thus instituting a system based upon racial discrimination. Even converted Jews are classed as Jews by the Council.
The Council decides on the amount of imports to be allotted in any given field to Jews. As a result of the racial classification, there is already apparent a decrease in the number of Jewish firms dealing with foreign establishments. Many Jewish importing concerns have been altogether eliminated and it is feared that many more are scheduled for elimination.
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