Jews are barred from the repatriation of more than 500,000 refugees to the occupied zone who are still in unoccupied France, which will be resumed on May 15, it was officially stated yesterday.
Those not repatriated will cease receiving Government assistance and thus a problem will be created of some 20,000 needy Jewish refugees from the occupied zone which will increase the strain on Jewish relief organizations.
The number of those assisted by the Committee for Refugee Assistance, which distributes funds coming chiefly from the Joint Distribution Committee, has passed the 14,000 mark. The committee states that it is unable to accept new applications for assistance and hopes thus to avoid a new reduction of the already scarcely sufficient allocation of 200 francs monthly per person.
Meanwhile, a new list of 311 Jewish enterprises expropriated in the occupied zone was published here today, bringing the total to 2,615.
The Paris press reports that Jews are not permitted to live at live at Royan, famous seaside resort near Bordeaux, adding that a number of towns in the same region have been closed to Jews.
Meanwhile, a meeting of the Vichy cabinet decided to deprive of French nationality a number of citizens presently living abroad. Their names were not immediately disclosed.
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