Jewish emigres from Germany henceforth will enjoy certain registered mark privileges in transferring their funds abroad as a result of a provision included in a seventh “stand-still” agreement covering Germany’s partly frozen short-term foreign debts, the Herald Tribune reports from Berlin.
Under a complicated agreement, the emigrant may obtain abroad the equivalent of as much as 40 pfennigs, or even more, on a mark, instead of the 20 pfennigs or thereabouts which he has received hitherto. Jewish benevolent interests abroad are to provide the necessary funds.
The registered marks released in Germany are used for benevolent enterprises among Jews still living in the country. The arrangement was suggested, it was announced, by the Intria–international trade and investment agency.
(Intria was formed in London early in 1936 to secure the export of Jewish capital from Germany in the form of Reich goods to countries other than Palestine and to stimulate emigration of Jews from Germany to Palestine and elsewhere.)
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