The Riga municipality declined today to open a bureau for collecting signatures for the proposed anti-Jewish referendum.
The Riga Nazis had proposed that all Jews be deprived of their citizenship rights; that no licenses be issued to Jewish merchants, and that there be a prohibition of all marriages between Jews and Christians. The Latvian Nazis also wanted to prohibit the treatment of Jewish patients by non-Jewish doctors.
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