The German Government is not abiding by its promises regarding the Jews made in its memorandum to George Rublee, former director of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee, it was indicated today by a report of the Anglo-Jewish Joint Foreign Committee to a meeting of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. The category of wage-earning Jews, between the ages of 15 and 45, which the German memorandum said would emigrate first, is now being conscripted for manual labor in Germany, while the promise of reasonable treatment of the aged has not been fulfilled, the report said.
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